DESCRIPTION: An original and very attractive 7"x21" pictorial map of the Bermuda Islands on the recto of a folding promotional brochure for Bermuda in four panels. Numerous simple realistic sketches depict locations that include:
- Ireland Island
- Gibbs Hill Lighthouse
- St. Paul's Church
- Military Barrack Prospect
- Harrington Sound
- Tucker's Town
- Shelly Bay Race Track
- St. George
- St. Catherines Point
Inset street plans for St. George and for Hamilton. North oriented at upper right with a fine colorful compass rose. Text below the map includes latitude and longitude coordinates for Bermuda and a scale of miles.
The verso contains photos and text related to steamship service to Bermuda from several maritime firms including:
- The Furness Bermuda Line
- The Pacific Steam Navigation Company
- The Munson Steamship Lines
- The Canadian National Steamships
- Elders & Fyffes, Ltd.
- New York Bermuda Lines
The appeal also reveals how intertwined speculation and infrastructure were along the Georgia coast. The same investors held stock in the City of Brunswick Land Company, the Canal Company, and related ventures such as the Brunswick Land Company trust deed later cited in congressional records. The letter’s rhetoric promised that, once the canal opened, emigrants from Maine would build sawmills, lots near the wharves would sell instantly, and the city would finally justify earlier hopes of becoming a major southern port. It was both a financial circular and a piece of booster propaganda.
In the broader context, the letter marks one of the last organized attempts to complete the antebellum Brunswick Canal before the project faded into insolvency. It ties together every thread found in later documentation—the Ocean Bank trusteeship, D. Randolph Martin’s role as fiduciary, and the continuing pattern of Georgia infrastructure financed through northern capital. The document stands as a vivid example of how local ambition, speculative land companies, and Wall Street banking combined in the mid-nineteenth century to promote internal improvements along the southern seaboard.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1939
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United Kingdom
BODY OF WATER: Atlantic Ocean
CONDITION: Very good.
No issues. Bright, clean.
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SIZE: 21
" x
7 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 90
PRICE: $125
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