An unrecorded promotional map for City Heights in northeast Chicago, with verso plat map. The 1890s were years of considerable growth for Chicago, a decade that saw the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893) and an increase of 600,000 in the city’s population. This map shows the entirety of the city at.....
A rare and early map of the city of Pierre, published eight years after it was founded, and one year before it became the capital of the newly formed state of South Dakota. Founded in 1880, during the Great Dakota Boom of 1878-1887, Pierre began as a ferry landing on.....
A bilingual map of the city of Shanghai, printed in Japanese and English, showing the heart of the city, bissected by the Whangpoo (Huangpu) River. Many wharves, streets and green spaces are identified in English, while many other features are in Japanese only, including the keys on the bottom right.....
A rare and quite detailed, large-scale map of Tarrytown, New York, showing both the more densely developed village, as well as outlying areas. Commercial, public, and domestic buildings are identified (their very footprints, in fact, are shown), as well as a number of large estates. Among the latter are the.....
A scarce bird’s eye view of the north shore town of Beverly, Massachusetts, a seaside resort, residential, and manufacturing community. This view shows the town’s residences, manufacturing sites, railroads (the Boston & Maine R.R. and its Gloucester branch), churches, municipal buildings, and the city’s bustling harbor where numerous vessels are.....
A scarce and attractive promotional map for the proposed development Villa Park Heights in Washington D.C., featuring a circle memorializing President McKinley intended to attract wealthy buyers—an overt attempt to imitate a phenomenon attending other memorial circles and squares in Washington. This plat map depicts the northern section of Villa.....
Styled the “First Annual Edition” on the title page, this is the only directory of Madison issued by Seymour. Pages 9 to 78 consist of a history and description of Madison, as well as a list of state and federal government officials. Pages 79 to 126 lists the citizens and.....
One of the largest and most spectacular bird’s eye views of Boston ever published, with the built environment of the city rendered in meticulous detail. This magnificent view shows the city from an elevated imaginary vantage point in the east, looking toward the Charles River and Cambridge in the.....
A very scarce map of the historic town of Danvers in Essex County, Mass., situated just north of Salem. This informative and handsome map shows the town’s streets, buildings, and landowners, as well as rail lines and topography. Seven detailed vignettes of local scenes embellish the margins, including a view.....
A skillfully drawn manuscript map, which appears to have been compiled for an official purpose, but does not appear to have been published. This map focuses on the waterfront villages of Marshfield, Massachusetts, a town perhaps best known as the home of Daniel Webster, whose house in Green.....
A very scarce view of the Maine island town of Vinalhaven, located in Penobscot Bay, once an important center of the granite industry. Vinalhaven Village, with its many buildings clustered around the harbor, appears in the foreground and two active granite quarries can be seen nearby. A variety of vessels.....
A scarce and densely detailed map of the Pacific Electric Railway, initially published a year after Henry E. Huntington lost possession of the company and as it began to rapidly expand, becoming—only a decade later—the world’s largest electric railway system. This revised issue of the map reflects the growth of.....
A large and handsome bird’s eye view of the historic sea-side town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This richly detailed view depicts the city and the surrounding area, as seen from an imaginary elevated vantage point in the northwest looking southeast. In the foreground, various vessels are shown plying the.....
An early, important and very rare depiction of the Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Roughly equidistant from Cape Town and Durban, Port Elizabeth was founded in 1820. As a seaport it great rapidly, to the extent that in 1861, the year before Bowler drew this image, the town was granted.....
An attractive map of Gloucester and Rockport by one of the most accomplished and prolific U.S. mapmakers of the mid-nineteenth century. The map is divided into four sections, with maps of Rockport Village and Gloucester Harbor Village on the left, a general map of Rockport and Gloucester at the upper.....
A large and quite impressive bird’s eye view of Portland, Maine, as it appeared after a decade of rebuilding, following the great fire of 1866. This fine, richly detailed view of Portland depicts the city—viewed from an elevated eastern vantage point—as a lively, prosperous place, with a busy harbor.....