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 military detail on the map explains why civilian efforts depended so heavily on accurate local knowledge. Notes of Rebel picket lines, rifle pits, skirmishes, and shelling mark areas where Confederate forces remained active from January to July, 1862 and where movement involved real risk. The map therefore captures a moment when military necessity and civilian reconstruction were inseparable. Rather than illustrating a single engagement, it records how Northerners navigated, defended, and reorganized a newly occupied landscape while attempting, imperfectly, to replace slavery with paid labor, schooling, and basic civil order at the very beginning of Reconstruction.
The map is executed in pen and ink, with areas of water and terrain shaded in graphite. The graphite shading appears to have been produced using a textured aid beneath the paper, a method consistent with known mid-19th-century drafting practice for creating uniform tonal effects efficiently.
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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