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In 1786 Judge William Cooper planned this town on Otsego Lake in New York. Here his son, James Fenimore, wrote many of his novels, and Abner Doubleday originated the game of baseball. L. R. Burley's charming toned lithograph shows the community as seen from the northeast.
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| Size: 15¼" x 27½" - Toned, Cover-stock Paper: $32.50 |
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In 1786 Judge William Cooper planned this town on Otsego Lake in New York. Here his son, James Fenimore, wrote many of his novels, and Abner Doubleday originated the game of baseball. L. R. Burley's charming toned lithograph shows the community as seen from the northeast.
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| Size: 15½” x 26¾” - Toned, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Date: 1889 |
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Elisha Babcock established this community in 1885 near San Diego. Its unusual combination of radial, gridiron, and curvilinear streets proved attractive, and it became one of the successful towns of the state's land boom.
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| Size: 13½" x 20¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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This South Dakota mining town sprang into existence following the discovery of gold in the Black Hills in 1875. Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Deadwood Dick were among its prominent citizens.
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| Size: 13" x 20½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Traces of gold in the Platte River and rumors of major deposits nearby attracted several rival town site companies to what is now Denver. This extremely rare lithograph is the first printed record of their surveys. The reproduction is reduced approximately one-sixth from the size of the original in the Colorado Historical Society.
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| Size: 18¾" x 24½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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This colored lithograph view reveals the speed of Denver's growth. In a few years the rival settlements at the mouth of Cherry Creek had been unified and transformed into a city. Three railroad lines and their depots appear in the foreground.
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| Size: 17¾" x 28" - Color, Cover-stock Paper: $37.50 |
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This colored lithograph view reveals the speed of Denver's growth. In a few years the rival settlements at the mouth of Cherry Creek had been unified and transformed into a city. Three railroad lines and their depots appear in the foreground.
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| Size: 14½” x 23” - Color, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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This is the first printed plan of Detroit from Bellin's Petit Atlas Maritime. It shows the town as laid out in 1701 by Cadillac.
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| Size: 8¼" x 12½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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After the destruction of the old French town by fire in 1805 Judge Augustus Woodward devised an unusual triangular plan for rebuilding Detroit. His design for the central portion of the city is shown in this plate prepared for a volume of the American State Papers, Public Lands Series, published in 1860.
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| Size: 9¾" x 8¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Only a portion of Woodward's plan of 1807 was carried out. John Mullett's survey of 1830 shows the pattern of the central part of the city as finally established. This drawing also appeared in the records of the land claims of Detroit published in the American State Papers.
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| Size: 17½" x 14" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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