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This scarce antique bird's eye map extends from Nantucket Sound north and includes portions of the Canadian provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Locates Portsmouth, Portland and Cape Elizabeth, Deer Island, East Port, St. John, and Charlottetown on the distant horizon. Includes Cape Cod Bay, Bay of Fundy, and Northumberland Strait. The map extends inland as far as Lake Champlain, including all of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts, as well as parts of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Shows Worcester, Montpelier, Lewiston, Augusta, Bangor, St. Albans, Burlington, Rutland, Concord, Springfield, Hartford, and Providence.
Chromolithograph bird's eye view map sold by the Union News Company of Boston ca. 1910. The pocket map folds into paper covers with title: "Bird's-Eye View Map of Boston to St. John, N.B. Showing all Steamboat Routes. Price 10 cents."
Ferry and ship routes are shown from Boston to points north including routes for these lines:
- Eastern Steamship Company (routes shown to Portland, Bangor and Eastport)
- Dominion Atlantic Line (routes shown to Digby, St. John and Yarmouth
- Plant Line (route to Halifax, Nova Scotia)
On the inside cover is an extensive list of maps available from Walker Lithograph & Publishing Company, 400 Newbury Street, Boston. George H. Walker was a Boston based publisher of books, views, and maps active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Walker began publishing in 1878 when he partnered with an unknown New York Firm. Two years later, Walker brought the operation in house by partnering with his brother, Oscar W. Walker, in the opening of a lithography studio at 81 Milk Street, Boston. The Walker brothers produced a large corpus of works, most of which focused on travel and tourism in New England.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1910
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: Atlantic Ocean
CONDITION: Very good.
Clean and bright with no holes or tears. Folds as issued.
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SIZE: 18
" x
13 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0
PRICE: $
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