| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 5284 | ![Manuscript trace of the earliest map of Erving's Grant, 1788 [1910].](../ZoomifyImages/SC_5284/TN.GIF) | Details | Avery, F. Deane | 1910 |
| Manuscript trace Erving's Grant Massachusetts Map by Metcalf |
|
Avery, F. Deane |
|
| 1910 |
| LOC:10 |
| $1,100.00 | Avery--F--Deane | Manuscript-trace-Erving-s-Grant-Massachusetts-Map-by-Metcalf | Rare decorative ink manuscript trace map ca. 1910 made by F. Deane Avery (1876 - 1940) of an earlier 1788 [1] map of Erving's Grant, Massachusetts by surveyor Joseph Metcalf in Orange, MA. April 21, 1788 (copied by John ? Pope, Boston, August 11, 1788). The text describing Metcalf's map is in a decorative calligraphic style as might have been used in the late 18th century. The only available true copy of Metcalf's survey of Erving's Grant. [2]
<br></br>
In 1920 Avery, self-described as an "Engineer and Architect", published a short article describing his method of indexing survey artifacts [3]. By 1924 F. Deane Avery was employed as County Engineer in Greenfield, Massachusetts. With Avery's index number "5B-20" at lower right corner.
<br></br>
[1] On February 6, 1788 Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution and was admitted to the Union.<br>
[2] On the map the land is described as lying in Hampshire County, but today the land lies in Franklin County, Massachusetts.<br>
[3] Avery, F. Deane. "A simple system of indexing notes and plans: Filing by location preferred to other methods- key has numbered areas- loose leaf ledger used". Engineering News-Record. Vol. 85 p. 155. |