New National Map, exhibiting the United States with the North America British Provinces, Sandwich Islands, Mexico and Central America, Cuba and other West India Islands....constructed and engraved by w Williams. Philadelphia: n.d. [but circa 1856] Hand-colored lithographed wall map on 4 sheets, joined, overall 63 x 63 inches. The wall map of North America set in a wide decorative border of flowers and foliage, inset table of population by county from the 1850 census, 4 decorative vignettes, 2 inset maps of the world, tables of distances, rivers, mountains, inset map of the Sandwich Islands (Hawai). Unvarnished, and lightly browned, mounted on modern cloth, old ebonised wooden rollers, some light ink staining at lower margin, slight cracking at upper margin, old creasing An undated issue of this very attractive Mitchell wall map. (Rumsey 5122 and 0564 listing dated 1856 and 1860 issues). This New National map developed from the earlier National Map issued by Mitchell of the 1840s. The inclusion of the Sandwich Islands, then an Independent State, indicating the beginnings of broader territorial ambitions for the US in the Pacific and elsewhere, which is probably why the map extends through Central America and the Carribean.
New National Map, exhibiting the United States with the North America British Provinces, Sandwich Islands, Mexico and Central America, Cuba and other West India Islands....constructed and engraved by w Williams. Philadelphia: n.d. [but circa 1856] Hand-colored lithographed wall map on 4 sheets, joined, overall 63 x 63 inches. The wall map of North America set in a wide decorative border of flowers and foliage, inset table of population by county from the 1850 census, 4 decorative vignettes, 2 inset maps of the world, tables of distances, rivers, mountains, inset map of the Sandwich Islands (Hawai). Unvarnished, and lightly browned, mounted on modern cloth, old ebonised wooden rollers, some light ink staining at lower margin, slight cracking at upper margin, old creasing An undated issue of this very attractive Mitchell wall map. (Rumsey 5122 and 0564 listing dated 1856 and 1860 issues). This New National map developed from the earlier National Map issued by Mitchell of the 1840s. The inclusion of the Sandwich Islands, then an Independent State, indicating the beginnings of broader territorial ambitions for the US in the Pacific and elsewhere, which is probably why the map extends through Central America and the Carribean.
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