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A Map of the British and French Settlements in North America, c. 1755

A Map of the British and French Settlements in North America of c. 1755 is an argument in the format of a map whose graphic elements outline the land claim by the British. There are three primary graphic elements of this medium sized map: the map, a column of text and a tiered trophy-like monument decorated with elaborate flowers. First, the map itself illustrates the territory and the competing settlements to which the map title refers. The map is labeled by place names, topography, native Indian dominions, colonial place names, forts and a record of historical settlements with dates. Next,...

Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States 1845

      Mitchell's commanding 1845 wall map titled Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States consists of the titular, primary map of the United States that fills almost the entire 6 foot wide sheet and of a one-quarter sized, inset map titled A General Map of the of the United States with the contiguous British & Mexican Possession of utmost political significance that graphically appears to emerge as the metamorphosis of the United States into its destined coast to coast boundaries. This transcontinental map shows the Republic of Texas with its stovepipe.  There are two state inset maps: the...

Virgin Islands &, 1823, Fielding Lucas, Jr.

This finely engraved and hand colored 1823 map Virgin Islands &, is from Fielding Lucas Jr.'s 1823 American A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps of All the Known Countries in the World, Constructed from the Latest Authority. Various engravers produced the individual maps.  Fielding Lucas Jr. was an early and highly successful American map and chart publisher.  Fielding Lucas Jr. also engaged in other civic, printing and philanthropic endeavors.

Please see  the David Rumsey Map Collection for a thorough bibliographical description of Fielding Lucas Jr.'s A General Atlas,1823 edition along with comments about the high engraving quality of the maps.

Bermudas., 1823, Fielding, Lucas, Jr.

This finely engraved and hand colored 1823 map Bermudas. is from Fielding Lucas Jr.'s 1823 American A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps of All the Known Countries in the World, Constructed from the Latest Authority. Various engravers produced the individual maps.  Fielding Lucas Jr. was an early and highly successful American map and chart publisher.  Fielding Lucas Jr. also engaged in other civic, printing and philanthropic endeavors.

Please see  the David Rumsey Map Collection for a thorough bibliographical description of Fielding Lucas Jr.'s A General Atlas,1823 edition along with comments about the high engraving quality of the maps.

Bahama's, 1823, Fielding Lucas, Jr.

This finely engraved and hand colored 1823 map Bahama's is from Fielding Lucas Jr.'s 1823 American A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps of All the Known Countries in the World, Constructed from the Latest Authority. Various engravers produced the individual maps.  Fielding Lucas Jr. was an early and highly successful American map and chart publisher.  Fielding Lucas Jr. also engaged in other civic, printing and philanthropic endeavors.

Please see  the David Rumsey Map Collection for a thorough bibliographical description of Fielding Lucas Jr.'s A General Atlas,1823 edition along with comments about the high engraving quality of the maps.

Rhode Island (1799)

The map Rhode Island (1799) appeared in the 18th c. American reference work The New and Universal Gazetteer  by Joseph Scott, and printed in Philadelphia. This book is an early American imprint. It is a reference work known as a modern geographical dictionary. While its maps of other countries, such as those in Europe, Asia and Africa were well established political kingdoms, its maps of the states of the new United States were maps of a new and democratic nation. The 18th c. maps of the original American states appear in Joseph Scott's work,  and today appear more often individually...

Map of the City of Providence, Rhode Island (1896)

      Sampson, Murdock & Co. was a woman owned business directory and map publisher (Mary O. Sampson) whose later 19th c. city directories were widely distributed in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Sampson, Murdock & Co. inserted detailed, color lithographed maps into the directories that were both for business and for travel. The map at hand appears to have been published independently as a stand alone map. Therefore all points of transportation connections for both freight and passenger rail were shown. Concentric circles drawn on the map permit a pedestrian to measure the distance from the center of Providence from zone...

Map of Rhode Island Showing State, County and Town Boundaries. 1906 - mammoth folding map

The Map of Rhode Island Showing State, County and Town Boundaries.1906 by map publisher Geo. H. Walker & Co. is a definitive, large scale (and conveniently folding) color map that permits the viewer to take in the geography, topography and transit routes at the turn of the century as the automobile had yet to define the landscape and trains were the primary means of medium and long term travel within and passing through the state. This mammoth, yet stylistically unassuming map is a survey of the entire state and allows the viewer to see each town and county boundary, and...

The City of New York, Fortune, 1939

    The City of New York, is a map and an ode to New York City and its people. The map title also serves grammatically as the lead in to a longer narrative about the city and immediately focuses our attention on the topic in print: "The City of New York...is 310 square miles of rock-bottom land, criss-crossed by 5,000 miles of streets and largely bounded by its 580 miles of waterfront. Here about half of its 7,500,000  inhabitants were born and here most of them work. Last year their income was $6,200,000,000."  This map, published by Fortune in its...

Smith College Class of 1898, Memorabilia. [book] by Ruth Colburn Barnard

      Memorabilia. is a hefty, approximately 50-page book whose author is Ruth Colburn Barnard, Smith College Class of 1898 who filled this book with treasures, mementoes and documentation of her experiences as a Smith College undergraduate living in Wallace. It is a book assembled as a work in progress over three years and begins "Ruth Colburn Smith '98 - Sophomore Year 13 Wallace", with one internal page marked " Junior Year -"-and another "Senior Year"  with a wavy underline, until the pages were completely filled.  Memorabilia.  is a work greater than the sum of its parts. Memorabilia. is an autobiography...

Birds Eye View of Casco Bay 1905 - with WWII manuscript Mosquito Eradication Plan drawn on the map

    This unique example of Birds Eye View of Casco Bay: Portland, Maine and Surroundings. c. 1905 was owned and used by Officer Lt. Armstrong as a military "site plan" for the U.S. Army's program to prevent malaria during  WWII 1/  at it primary East Coast base, Casco Bay, Maine. The base was both defensive and offensive in its programs throughout WWII.  Hand written instructions on the face of the map document the actions required or completed  - "Should be done away with", or "Marsh drained" as part of the mosquito eradication program. These notations are along the coast, on...

The New England Coast From New York to Portland.

The New England Coast from New York to Portland  is a scarce, colorful and geographically detailed bird's-eye view from a high vantage point that encompasses a vast regional landscape. The scenery on the map is framed to the west by the Hudson River at the tip of New York City all the way north to its origin in the six million acre Adirondack Park1/, easterly across Long Island, past Block Island and bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and into Buzzard's Bay, where our gaze is guided by a ferry boat track that passes Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and around Cape Cod,...