1862 walling (2 resultados)

Good. Overall toning and cracking. Professionally restored and stabilized. Size 75 x 60 Inches. This is Henry Francis Walling's very large-format 1862 wall map of Canada West (formerly Upper Canada and subsequently Ontario), published by Robert M. Tackabury and George N. Tackabury. In addition to its size and magnificent level of detail, it is also significant for capturing this region in a period of political and social transformation, driven by railways, immigration, and moves towards greater political union and autonomy. A Closer Look This massive wall map covers Canada West, previously called Upper Canada, and renamed Ontario upon Confederation in 1867. County and district boundaries are traced in hand-color, while townships are shaded and individual land plots are traced, almost always in a uniform grid, which typically resulted in plots of 100 acres, a major inducement to immigrants (discussed below). In northern Ontario, where settlement was sparsest, some townships remain undivided for allotment to settlers, while a large area around and to the north of the Parry Sound Road remained mostly uninhabited by White settlers, though members of several First Nations (Ojibwe, Cree, Oji-Cree, and others) would have been resident there. Additional details like roads, railways, shipping lines, and more also proliferate across the map. Surrounding the main map are inset maps and views of Ottawa, Kingston, Montreal, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Toronto, London, the University of Toronto, and the North West Part of Lake Huron and Manitoulin Island, some of which incorporate the work of other cartographers like G.W. and C.B. Colton (successors to the firm of Joseph Hutchins Colton), Sir William E. Logan (founder of the Geological Survey of Canada), and Lorin Blodget (a founding figure of climatology in North America). A population table, timetable (as times varied by locality and were not standardized into zones at this time), and coats of arms of Canada and Great Britain also appear, along with an inset map of all the British Possessions in North America (i.e., today's Canada), a miniaturized J. H. Colton wall map. A Plagiarism Fight This map caused quite a tiff with fellow map publisher George C. Tremaine, who produced the only other equivalently large wall map of Canada West at the time, with both producing first editions of their maps in 1862. Tremaine argued that the Tackaburys had plagiarized his earlier county maps of the region. However, it is unclear to what extent this was true given Walling's own familiarity with the area, including making his own county maps. The acrimony was also surely connected to the financial difficulties of both firms, given the tremendous upfront costs in producing such a work. Walling in particular appears to have suffered heavy losses due to the terms of his contract with the Tackaburys (though he continued to work with them into the 1880s). Both firms took out space in newspapers to criticize the other, lambasting each other's cartographic and printing methods, accusing each other of plagiarism, and denouncing each other as carpetbagging Americans. (Tremaine lived in Canada but had been born in New York, not far from the Tackabury family, in fact.) For more information on this feud and the Tackabury Brothers, see the online article 'The Tackabury Brothers and their 1862 Canada West Map' by Graham Seeger. Historical Context This map was produced when this region was undergoing tremendous economic, demographic, and political transformation. Following a pair of rebellions in the late 1830s, Upper and Lower Canada were merged into a union in 1840 and became Canada West and the mostly French-speaking Canada East (the basis for Quebec). The 1840s and 1850s saw significant levels of (Anglophone) immigration, and the population of Canada West more than doubled in the decade after its creation, surpassing that of Canada East for the first time. Along with new immigrants, rail connections with the United Stat.

Very good. Full professional restoration. Size 64.25 x 62.5 Inches. An impressive large-scale 1862 Civil War era wall map of Maine by Henry Francis Walling and Jacob Chace Jr. This the first major map of Maine to follow the 1844 map of Jeremiah Greenleaf. The map represents the culmination of Walling and Chace's decades of work in Maine. For years, they compiled and published Maine city and county maps, giving them access to unprecedented up-to-date cartographic data, all of which is represented here. A Closer Look Cities illustrated via inset include Portland, Calais, Presque Isle, Houlton, Ellsworth, Bangor, Eastport, Machias, Bath, Farmington, Dover and Foxcroft, Paris Hill, Skowhegan, Waterville, Hallowell, Wiscasset, Gardiner, Augusta, Waldboro, Brunswick, Thomaston, Rockland, Auburn, and Lewiston, and Saco and Biddeford. Additional insets highlight the United States as a whole - reflecting the Civil War Confederate state of Arizona -, the world, and charts denoting distances and the relative heights of great mountains. Publication History and Census This map was compiled by Walling and Chase with the assistance of M. Clemens and T. W. Baker. It was engraved by W. Hatfield. The large inset ma of the United States is attributed to D. Griffing Johnson. We note examples of this map in several major collections, but examples in exceptional condition, as here, are rare to the market. References: Rumsey 152.000. Phillips (America) p. 385.