Gazetteer Base Maps

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Gazetteer Base Maps

Contributor

Profs Campbell and Jakacki

Items in the Gazetteer Base Maps Collection

Map of New England with adjacent portions of New York and Canada (1877)
From David Rumsey: This was Walling's last State Atlas and the most elaborate. The atlas was copyright and printed by Julius Bien. Full color.

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Atlas Of The State Of New Hampshire Including Statistics And Descriptions Of Its…

A map of the most inhabited part of New England : containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire, with the colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island, divided into counties and townships : the whole composed from actual surveys and its situation adjusted by astronomical observations (1774)
This large, detailed map of New England was compiled by Braddock Mead (alias John Green), and first published by Thomas Jefferys in 1755. Green was an Irish translator, geographer, and editor, as well as one of the most talented British map-makers at…

An Exact Mapp of New England and New York (1702)
Recognized as the first 18th century map of New England, this map was used to illustrate Cotton Mather's famous history of the Bay Colony, "Magnalia Christi Americana: or the Ecclesiastical History of New England from Its First Planting". The map…