Steven Craig Hurd Map Collection

Collection

Identifier: AppMs-0825

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This Stephen Craig Hurd Map Collection consists of framed and unframed maps, primarily of Tennessee and bordering states. In addition to the paper maps, there is a set of drinking glasses printed with a map of Tennessee. Most of the maps were originally found in atlases, but the collection also includes pictorial maps and road maps. Stephen Hurd framed and matted the maps.

Dates

Creation: 1785-2008, undated

Creator

Hurd, Stephen Craig, 1959-2013 (Collector, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research. Thirty-four (34) maps of Tennessee have been digitized and added to ETSU's Digital Commons. They can be viewed here: Steven Craig Hurd Map Collection

Conditions Governing Use

Extent

34.15 linear feet (Seventeen (17) flat boxes; one (1) large framed map; three (3) oversize folders)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The maps were bequeathed to the Archives of Appalachia by Stephen Craig Hurd. Accession number 2013-027.

Separated Materials

The following books were cataloged for the Archives of Appalachia book collection:

Hart, Joseph C. An Abridgement of Geographical Exercises for Practical Examinations on Maps. New York: Samuel S. and William Wood, 1826.

History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present…. Chicago and Nashville: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887

Mitchell, S. Augustus. The New Primary Geography: Illustrated by Twenty Colored Maps and Embellished with a Hundred Engravings. Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co., 1870.

Morris, Easton. The Tennessee Gazetteer or Topographical Dictionary. Nashville: The Gazetteer Press, 1971.

Morse, Jedidiah. Geography Made Easy: Being an Abridgement of the American Universal Geography. Boston: Thomas & Andrews, 1818.

Phelan, James. School History of Tennessee. Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co., 1889.

Preston, Thomas W. Historical Sketches of the Holston Valleys. Kingsport, Tennessee: Kingsport Press, 1926.

Ramsey, J.G.M. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Kingsport, Tennessee: Kingsport Press, 1926.

Rand McNally Pocket World Atlas. New York, NY: Pocket Books, Inc., 1951

Tennessee Valley Authority. The Scenic Resources of the Tennessee Valley: A Descriptive and Pictorial Inventory. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938.

Worcester, J.E. An Historical Atlas Containing the Following Charts…. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Company, 1826.