1847
Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Méjico
John Disturnell (after White, Gallaher & White, 1828)
1847
Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Méjico
John Disturnell (after White, Gallaher & White, 1828)
Period original
What this plate depicts
Mexico as Disturnell issued it in 1847, including Texas and Alta California. Upper California is on the sheet as Mexican territory at the moment the war map becomes a treaty map. Later boundary commissions found Disturnell’s El Paso too far north and east of the ground. Record the plate as printed: a New York publisher’s Mexico, attached to a peace, with errors that then had to be surveyed out. Do not silently correct the El Paso error on this image.
- Source
- University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections; the 1847 edition used in Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo copies.
- License
- Public domain.
Compare with the next
Record this sheet first. Then set it beside another plate. Nothing is redrawn to make them agree.
Chapters where this plate appears
- 02Chronological progressionRead the originals in date order. Each plate is evidence of what was drawable that year.
- 03Territorial changesEuropean rights, a treaty map, then a later schematic of what the treaty moved.
- 07Mexican CaliforniaAlta California on the 1847 Disturnell sheet — the map clipped to the peace.
- 10Modern boundariesA later schematic of the 1848 outcome. Compare it with Disturnell, which is the period map.