BURR, DAVID H. Map of the United States exhibiting the several Collection Districts. Senate Ex. Doc. No. 77. Lithographed folding 2-sheet map, 1240x800mm overall, wide margins; hand-colored in outline; slight browning where sheets joined, 3 small worm holes. Washington, 1854
State and Territorial boundaries colored in yellow. Boundaries of tax collection districts colored in red. From a government publication on tax collection - Report of the Secretary of the Treasury Communicating . . . a draft of a general revenue law - published in July 1854 (Rumsey 3924). It was drawn by Burr during the one year that he served as the Geographer to the U. S. Senate. In the following year he was appointed by President Franklin Pierce to be the Surveyor General of Utah (Ristow, page 108). Rumsey suggests that this map by Burr is the first government map to show Kansas and Nebraska, though it may be preceded by the mid-1854 edition of Colton's large wall map of the United States of America, the British Provinces, Mexico and the West Indies (see lot 139). Rumsey 2263.
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