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Tanner was born in New York City but removed in early life to Philadelphia, Pa. , where he was first associated with his brother Benjamin, an engraver, and later with his brother's firm of Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Company.
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A description of the canals and rail roads of the United States, comprehending notices of all the works of internal improvement throughout the several states This book, "Canals and rail roads of the United States", by Henry Schenck Tanner, is a replication of a book originally published before 1840. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Tanner was born in New York City but removed in early life to Philadelphia, Pa. , where he was first associated with his brother Benjamin, an engraver, and later with his brother's firm of Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Company.
He was trained as an engraver.
He was endowed with that combination of scientific and artistic sense that spells the true cartographer and that led him ultimately to produce for his time the outstanding map representations of the territory of the United States, based on a critical study of the source material.
He engraved the thirty-one maps in A New and Elegant General Atlas Containing Maps of Each of the United States (c. 1812), the frontispiece map in Travels in the United States (1912) by John Melish, two-thirds of the maps in Melish's A Military and Topographical Atlas of the United States (eds. of 1813, 1815), and, with J. Vallance, Melish's fundamental Map of the United States . With the Contiguous British & Spanish Possessions (1816), of 60 miles to the inch. Accompanying the last of these was a text--A Geographical Description of the United States (1816)--that included a brief discussion of the source maps on which the compilation was based. This text, as well as the work on the map itself, cannot but have exerted a shaping influence on Tanner's thought. But all these undertakings were merely a prelude to Tanner's greatest work. The underlying principles of uniformity of scale and foundation on primary source material are expressed in its title: A New American Atlas; Containing Maps of the Several States of the North American Union, Projected and Drawn on a Uniform Scale from Documents Found in the Public Offices of the United States and Other Original and Authentic Information. It consisted primarily of maps of the individual states or of state groups, all on the scale of 15 geographical (or 17 1/3 statute) miles to the inch, which would be large for many states even in a modern atlas. It ran through numerous editions until at least 1839.
No modern atlas of relatively equal merit is available to the American public today, and the first paragraph of Tanner's announcement in the first instalment, dated Philadelphia, July 10, 1818, might still well serve as a charter for American cartography after a lapse of considerably more than a century. After criticizing previous American maps of the United States for their failure both "to convey an adequate idea of the subject" and "to do justice to the improved state of Geographical Science in the United States, " and those published in Europe for their defectiveness and incorrectness, he expresses the view that "the subject must be brought to maturity" in America, where "we possess the materials and skill sufficient to exhibit a topographical representation of the United States, infinitely superior, as it regards correctness and detail, and every way equal in style, to any European publication of the kind. "
The compilation of the maps in the New American Atlas gave Tanner a mastery of the cartographic sources relating to the United States. This, together with the rapid appearance of new material, led him to plan a synoptic view of the whole country, and in 1829 he published a map entitled simply United States of America, 64 by 50 inches in size, on the scale of exactly 1:2, 000, 000, or about 32 miles to the inch--practically twice as detailed as Melish's map of 1816. The selection of a so-called natural scale for the construction of the map--i. e. , an absolute scale expressing ratio in terms of size of the earth as against the universal practice of the time of utilizing relative scales expressing ratio in terms of conventional units of measure on the map itself, such as miles to the inch--throws an interesting sidelight on the scientific bent of Tanner's mind. Characteristically, also, during the compilation he addressed a circular letter inviting information as to recent surveys in the recipient's local region. He accompanied the map with a Memoir on the Recent Surveys, Observations, and Internal Improvements, in the United States, With Brief Notices of the New Counties, Towns, Villages, Canals, and Rail Roads (Philadelphia, 1829), which is a model of a scientist's rendering of account.
In 1850 he returned to New York, where he died eight years later.
Tanner published a lot of maps, atlases, and guide books, and geographical compendia; the price list at the end of the 1829 Memoir enumerates no less than eighty items. Among these are his A Map of the United States of Mexico, Constructed from a Great Variety of Printed and Manuscript Documents (1825), on the scale of 85 miles to the inch; Robert Mills's Atlas of the State of South Carolina (Philadelphia, 1825), consisting of county maps engraved by Tanner on the relatively large scale of 2 miles to the inch; A Description of the Canals and Rail Roads of the United States (New York, 1840); The American Traveller (1834); and The Central Traveller (1840).
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