Exhibit Section

  • IV. Nineteenth-Century Surveying

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] American Treasures 1. Of Maps and Beavers 2. Preserving an American Treasure 3. Thoreau and Maps 4. Nineteenth-Century Surveying 5. Urban Community 6. Genealogical Resources 7. Of Climates and Empire 8. ...

  • III. Thoreau and Maps

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] American Treasures 1. Of Maps and Beavers 2. Preserving an American Treasure 3. Thoreau and Maps 4. Nineteenth-Century Surveying 5. Urban Community 6. Genealogical Resources 7. Of Climates and Empire 8. ...

  • II. Preserving an American Treasure

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] American Treasures 1. Of Maps and Beavers 2. Preserving an American Treasure 3. Thoreau and Maps 4. Nineteenth-Century Surveying 5. Urban Community 6. Genealogical Resources 7. Of Climates and Empire 8. ...

  • I. Of Maps and Beavers

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] American Treasures 1. Of Maps and Beavers 2. Preserving an American Treasure 3. Thoreau and Maps 4. Nineteenth-Century Surveying 5. Urban Community 6. Genealogical Resources 7. Of Climates and Empire 8. New Engla...

  • VIII. Maps of Maine 1853-1860

    In the shadow of the commercial dominance of the large publishers in Philadelphia and New York, attempts continued at local map production. John B. Mansfield, a resident of Baltimore, published three wall maps and geographical books from Bangor and B...

  • VII. J. H. Colton

    By the 1850s, Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800-1893) was the preeminent U.S. geographic publisher. Working in New York, he produced a wide variety of guidebooks, atlases, wall maps [map 33], gazetteers, pocket maps [34], and travel guides covering all pa...

  • VI. Maps of Maine 1834-1852

    Maine was represented on a wide variety of maps between 1834 and 1852. Vermont-native Lewis Robinson produced a variety of wall maps which he actively marketed throughout New England via peddlers; all, including his map of Maine, are now very rare [m...

  • V. The Northeastern Boundary Controversy

    Maine’s northern boundaries — the U.S. northeastern boundary — remained contested after the Revolutionary War. The dispute heated up in the 1830s and led to the military stand-off known as the Aroostook War. The real threat of war led the U.S. ...

  • IV. A New Map of Maine, 1833-1860

    The most persistent atlas map of antebellum Maine was A New Map of Maine, which appeared in twenty-eight variants between 1833 and 1860: a remarkable number. Henry Schenck Tanner, a prominent Philadelphia map publisher, created it for his [New] Unive...

  • III. Maps of Maine, 1820-1833

    Maps of Maine are found in many American atlases of the early nineteenth century, including works by Henry C. Carey and Isaac Lea, Fielding Lucas, Jr., Anthony Finley, David H. Burr, Jeremiah Greenleaf, and Samuel G. Goodrich. Henry C. Carey and Isaa...