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Plan of the Village of Augusta, Maine 1838

The Plan of the Village of Augusta, Maine, (the "Plan") from actual surveys by B.F. Pesham and published in 1838 is a scarce, first plan of the City of Augusta.  The Plan is drawn at a large scale, 250 feet to the inch that permits the labeling of all buildings and occupied lands by the name of the land owner. The Plan is dynamic as it presents Augusta as it appears in1838 and presents major planned changes to the city layout, infrastructure and industry including new industrial neighborhoods. The Plan is also celebratory for it presents for the first time...

The Central Part of Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Elevated, 1930

The pictorial elements of artist Richard Lufkin's colorful The Central Part of Boston Massachusetts have been assembled to create a kaleidoscope effect rarely found in a map. The result is a sense of movement throughout the city. These elements consist of the large street plan view of downtown Boston, drawn as white streets on a soothing pink ground where buildings project from the street plan in seemingly random axonometric orientations, some facing forward, others tipped skyward, and yet other building foundations leaning downhill or uphill. Framing this scene are three vignettes each in their own panels, each filled with scenery...

The Soviet Union 60 Years After the Revolution

Vince Copeland (1915-1993) is a prolific American writer, activist, historian and speaker who committed his life to the labor movement and an understanding of communist principles in the United States. 1/ His work and life as a labor activist was throughout his life, including during formative years as an employee at Bethlehem Steel in Buffalo, New York. Copeland is a founder of the Workers World Party and editor of the Workers World, its newspaper and a litigant for political liberty. 2/ This vividly colored poster of Vince Copeland's lecture in Washington, D.C. at All Souls Church presents the topic of...

M.I.T. Student Posters '68-'71 (Originals)

This large collection of seventy-six (76) visually exuberant M.I.T. student life posters from 1968 to 1971 were published by the M.I.T. chapter of Alpha Phi Omega (APO) to adorn the infinite corridor and other M.I.T. campus locations, pinned to bulletin boards, walls, doors and other receptive surfaces. This visually and topically wide-ranging set of posters have distinctive graphic art that was designed to advertise upcoming APO sponsored lectures, academic lectures, volunteer opportunities on and off campus, APO contests - Ugliest Man on Campus, a lunar lander dropping down into Carnival, student government elections, The Institute Screw Contest, radical and traditional...

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. First Edition [nd 1834-1835]

This rare lithograph print is the first state, first edition of DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. printed c.1834-1835 by Nathaniel Currier in New York City where he set up his first lithography shop with a business partner named Adam Stodart in 1834 under the name Stodart & Currier.1/ Currier learned lithography when he was at age 15 apprenticed to Pendleton's Lithography in Boston, the partnership of brothers William S. Pendleton (1795-1879) and John B. Pendleton(1798-1866). Currier moved to New York City in 1834 and by some accounts worked briefly with John B. Pendleton who sold his New York City shop to his former...

Map of the Towns of Salisbury & Amesbury Essex County, Mass. 1854

This scarce, large, illustrated wall map of Salisbury & Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, Map of the Towns of Salisbury & Amesbury Essex County, Mass. 1854 presents a challenging visual composition of surveys, architecture and landscape along the mighty Merrimack River and its tributary the Powow River. This portrait of Salisbury and Amesbury in 1854 is drawn to highlight new features in each town. The map is unique because of two original manuscript inscriptions.There are seven (7) survey maps and eleven (11) finely drawn lithographed architectural vignettes of Amesbury and Salisbury that surround the survey maps. At the top of the...

Map of the City of Salem, Mass. From An Actual Survey H.McIntyre 1851.

Henry McIntyre's elaborate, decorated survey map of the City of Salem in 1851 is a portrait of an already densely developed city. Seven large architectural vignettes convey the institutional strength of civic, business and religious institutions. City Hall is drawn in the top left corner, the Court House at the bottom center of the map built in 1841. The large facade of the Eastern Railroad Station marks Salem as a major shipping and transfer hub domestically and beyond in America's rapidly expanding railroad network and worldwide shipping. Four vignettes of churches project the strong Protestant foundation of Salem in 1851....

Map of the Town of South Kingstown Washington Co. Rhode Island From Actual Surveys under the direction of Henry F. Walling 1857

The scarce Map of the Town of South Kingstown Washington Co. Rhode Island 1857 surveyed and drawn by Henry F. Walling is a decorative and historical narrative about the Colonial era settling of the Atlantic Coast that concentrates on the founding, surveying and delineation of South Kingstown, the county seat of Washington County, Rhode Island with highlights about its Colonial era residents and the map is a portrait c.1857 of the thriving South Kingstown community. This extensively illustrated map thus presents the viewer with a complex work of mapmaking and art: the primary map is surrounded graphically with eight (8)...

Map of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Henry F. Walling Civil Engineer 1855.

Native son Henry F. Walling (1825-1889), Civil Engineer is the author of the large scale, survey Map of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.1855 that reads as a cartographic gazetteer of Rhode Island at the middle of the 19th century.  Just below the map's title, a Note also explains the collaborations and 19th c. history of the survey work required to prepare this Rhode Island statewide map. Walling relied upon work from 19th c. surveys in abutting states - the 1844 Simeon Borden Massachusetts state map, and likely some of Walling's own surveys c. 1855 of Massachusetts towns...

Map of the United States Including Texas c. 1844

This finely detailed 19th c. engraved map of the United States and Texas, including three northeast state small inset maps, is titled with a focus on the independent Republic of Texas and the recognition of Native American territories in the west including the Mandan district. The large map is black and white, as published in the American edition by Harper & Brothers of M'Culloch's Universal Gazetteer: A Dictionary Geographical, Statistical, and Historical of the Various Countries, Places, and Principal Objects in the World...Illustrated with Seven Large Maps. The set of maps is engraved by Charles Copley in New York. The...

Map of Northern Maine -Lumbermen and Sportsmen 1897

This iconic,  large format 19th c. survey map of Northern Maine bears a title and format that broadcasts the two major economies of northern Maine: lumbering and sports fishing and hunting. While somewhat stylized and therefore difficult to decipher, the map date appears to be 1897. The map was compiled and copyrighted by the primary railroad in Northern Maine, the Bangor & Aroostock Rail Road. The railroad line is indicated on the map, as is s small area of manuscript. An example of this map is located at the Maine State Library. A later edition of this map with a...

VarietiesTheatre!, New Orleans Broadsides, Lot of 3, 1867

The Varieties Theatre of New Orleans was established by the Variété Association Theatre Club of New Orleans, a stockholder association of individuals committed to producing local theatre and who oversaw hiring a manager, building a repertory company and attending performances. This provides some context for the three broadsides and the long history and reputation of this theatre.  A series of fires and name changes, and manager changes permit us to date these New Orleans broadsides to 1867.  The broadsides are part of the history of a single theatre and also of the theatre culture of New Orleans for both actors...