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Title Isothermal Chart: Mean Distribution of Temperature for the Summer
Alternate Title Chart of Average Summer Temperatures
Creator Blodget, Lorin, 1823-1901
Contributor Lawson, Thomas, 1781?-1861
Bien, Julius, 1826-1909
Corporate Creator United States. Surgeon-General's Office
Type of Resource cartographic
Date Created 1855
Digital Origin reformatted digital
Topics Atmospheric temperature
Meteorology
Climatology
Places United States
Dates Nineteenth century
Subject Genre Thematic maps
Meteorological charts
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/10176/codu:55696
Rights Statement Digitized by the Denver Public Library Western History Department. Made available by the University of Denver Penrose Library solely for research and educational purposes. The user is responsible for all copyright, privacy and publicity rights compliance.
Language English
Extent 1 online resource (map) : TIFF file, col.
Physical Note Raster
Original Sheet(s): 24 x 53 cm.
Scale [Scale bar present]
Coordinates (W 130°--W 55°/N 50°--N 25°)
Notes » Website description: This is one of five charts of temperature designed by Lorin Blodget, the first made in the United States and derived from decades of research collected by the Smithsonian Institution.
» Date of situation: 1843-1854.
» Host/Source Creator: United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Host/Source Contributor: Lawson, Thomas, 1781?-1861. Host Type of Resource: text. Host Extent: xi, 763 p. : 10 charts. ; 30 cm. Host Classification: QC983 .A114 Host Classification Scheme: lcc. Host Notes: Prepared under the direction of Thomas Lawson, surgeon general United States army. Published by authority of Hon. Jefferson Davis, secretary of war. "Report on the prominent features of general climate in the United States, as exhibited in the distribution of temperature and of rain, and in explanation of the illustrative charts": p. [679]-763.
» Alternate title from Website.
Host Title Army Meteorological Register for Twelve Years, from 1843 to 1854, inclusive, compiled from observations made by the officers of the Medical Department of the Army at the Military Posts of the United States. Washington, D.C. : A.O.P. Nicholson, Public Printer, 1855.
Local Identifiers Blodget_Isothermal_Chart.tif
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(DLC) 03017384 (Host)
(OCoLC)2437890 (Host)
(OCoLC)758327548 (Host)