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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
Moses Greenleaf (1777-1834) was Maine’s pioneer mapmaker. An outspoken advocate of Maine statehood and economic development, he prepared his first map in 1815 [map 7] to accompany his demonstration that Maine deserved independence: A Statistical Vi...
Osgood Carleton (1741-1816) was the key figure in the early mapping of the Eastern District of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Maine. A land surveyor and teacher of the mathematical arts in Boston, he compiled existing manuscript maps and plans in...
[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture 1. Mapping the Arctic 2. The Franklin Search 3. The Art of Exploration 4. Triumph and Tragedy 5. The Pearys [/expand] Commander of several Ar...
[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture 1. Mapping the Arctic 2. The Franklin Search 3. The Art of Exploration 4. Triumph and Tragedy 5. The Pearys [/expand] As American expeditions...
