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1896 antique MAINE LAND SURVEYOR FIELD BOOK augusta me MAPS PLATS ENGINEER
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Original 1890s Maine land surveyor/engineer field book, with entries including 1896, containing approximately 208 numbered manuscript pages of handwritten surveying notes, measurements, calculations, property sketches, road layouts, building footprints, boundary information, and hand-drawn plats.
This is a particularly interesting working survey book rather than a later transcription. Many pages contain rough field diagrams showing roads, property lines, buildings, fences, walls, rivers or streams, railroad lines, survey points, bearings, distances, and adjoining landowners.
Visible material includes references to Augusta, Maine, and several sheets toward the rear are actually printed professional stationery headed “Augusta, Maine” and “ENGINEER / LAND SURVEYOR,” subsequently used for additional field sketches.
Among the more identifiable entries shown are:
- A detailed “Survey of Cony St for sidewalk May 21, 96”, showing Water Street, buildings, property measurements and what appears to be the M.C.R.R.
- Numerous State Street property and building surveys.
- Hand-drawn building footprints with measurements and neighboring structures.
- Road, wall, fence, river/stream and property-boundary diagrams.
- Survey calculations, bearings and distances throughout.
- Named property owners and adjoining landowners.
- A substantial handwritten entry concerning Vaughan D. Hallowell, citing Hallowell Records 1823–1894 and discussing an older road or right-of-way.
- Notes concerning roads, bridges, water levels and survey monuments.
- Later loose or partially detached survey sheets and diagrams continuing through approximately page 208.
The book provides an unusually direct look at the everyday work of a late-19th-century Maine surveyor or civil engineer. The combination of named landowners, street layouts, property boundaries, buildings, roads, waterways and historical deed/record research gives it potential interest for collectors and researchers of Maine history, Augusta history, land surveying, civil engineering, genealogy, property history, architecture, transportation and cartography.
The numerous hand-drawn plats are especially appealing. These are working field drawings rather than polished presentation maps, preserving measurements and observations apparently made or compiled during actual survey work.
Condition: Heavily used working field book in distressed condition. Front cover is missing. Remaining rear cover is heavily worn, stained, rubbed and deteriorated. Binding is substantially compromised, with exposed spine material, loose and detached leaves/sheets, edge tears, corner losses, stains, toning, handling wear and other age-related deterioration. Some sheets toward the rear are loose or partially detached. Approximately 208 pages are present/numbered. Despite the rough physical condition, a substantial amount of original handwritten survey material survives and remains quite legible. Please examine photographs carefully for condition and completeness.
A compelling original Maine surveying artifact with extensive manuscript content and numerous hand-drawn property and street plans.
Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.
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