DESCRIPTION: Very scarce thematic map related to the temperance movement: "Saloon Map of New Haven, Connecticut" where red dots indicate the location of saloons within the city. Left side with statistics unfavorable to the consumption of alcohol which link alcohol to many of the ills besetting New Haven at the beginning of the twentieth century. For example:
- One saloon to every 349 inhabitants.
- 42 percent of New Haven's arrests are for drunkenness.
- 44 percent of New Haven inmates of jail are there for drunkenness
- 60 percent of New Haven children in local public institutions in 1911 due to drunkenness of parents.
[ alcohol, temperance, prohibition, bar, pub, drinking, intoxication ]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: 1912
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: N/A
CONDITION: Very good.
Clean and solid with no major issues. Washed and flattened.
COLORING: Red.
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 16
" x
13 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 200
PRICE: $400
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