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Boston, Mass.: Walker Lithograph and Publishing Company, [ca. 1910]. 16mo (6” x 3.25”), pictorial color printed wrappers. [7], 39 pp., [1], plus publ. ads inside covers. CONDITION: Very good, 1.5” closed tear at right edge of wrapper, rust at centerfold staples, an appealing item.

An appealing trade catalog for New England road, city and state atlases, wall maps, birds-eye views, pocket railroad maps, and district maps of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Nova Scotia and Washington, D.C. A map on the back wrapper shows the “territory covered by Walker’s automobile maps.”

George Hiram Walker of Boston was a lithographer and printer active from 1880 to the 1940s. A publisher of atlases of Massachusetts, Maine, and Pennsylvania cities and towns, Walker also published maps, city views, labels, trade cards, sheet music covers, and more. Pierce and Slautterback write that Walker’s company “was the last important lithographic firm to be established in Boston in the nineteenth century…Walker maintained a consistently high quality of workman-like draftsmanship by employing experienced artists. Joseph L. Jones, C.E. Jorgensen, Richard P. Mallory, F. Pond, and Albert F. Poole drew for the firm” (Boston Lithography, p. 159). Walker & Co. acquired the Armstrong-Moore Co. in 1901 and changed its name to Walker Lithograph and Publishing Co., which operated until the 1940s. 

REFERENCES: Pierce, Sally and Catharina Slautterback. Boston Lithography, 1825–1880 (Boston, 1991), p. 159; Tooley, Dictionary of Mapmakers, Q–Z vol. (Riverside, Connecticut, 2001), p. 347.

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