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In 1677, Richard Noble planned this early New Jersey community for two groups of English Quakers. William Birch's fine engraved plan more than a century later recorded the exact details of the settlement at the close of the 18th century.
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| Size: 16" x 20" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Founded in 1864, this Montana mining center began its most vigorous period of development after the discovery of copper in 1880. Our striking toned lithograph shows the city a few years later, surrounded by smoke belching smelters.
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| Size: 18½" x 27¼" - Toned, Cover-stock Paper: $30.00 |
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William Strickland prepared this view of a proposed city in Illinois for its promoter, Darius Holbrook, who used it in London to obtain loans from English bankers. The city was to consist of districts, like that shown in the view, but Holbrook diverted the funds to other purposes.
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| Size: 11½" x 19" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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It was not until the Illinois Central Railroad was extended to this site that the city began to develop. The busy waterfront and railroad yards are clearly depicted on this detailed view.
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| Size: 18¼ x 31½ - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $32.50 |
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Only forty-eight of California's fifty-eight counties are depicted in this colorful map, published as the end of the Gold Rush but before the land boom in the southern portion of the state. Inserts depict the San Francisco Bay and settlements in the great Salt Lake Basin.
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| Size: 13½” x 18” - Color, Text-weight paper: $10.00 |
| Central City and Blackhawk |
Date: 1873 |
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Perhaps the best known of Colorado's mining communities are the two shown on this colored view. They flourished following the discovery of gold at Gregory Diggings in 1859. The facsimile is reduced one-tenth from the original.
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| Size: 13¾" x 17½" - Color, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
| Central City and Blackhawk |
Date: 1873 |
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Perhaps the best known of Colorado's mining communities are the two shown on this colored view. They flourished following the discovery of gold at Gregory Diggings in 1859. The facsimile is reduced one-tenth from the original.
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| Size: 13¾" x 17½" - Color, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Central Park in New York City was the first great public park in the United States. This brightly colored view by John Bachmann is from the north. We look down on the lake, terrace, mall, and the other features that Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed in 1856.
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| Size: 13¾" x 19½" - Color, Text Weight Paper: $12.00 |
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When the original location of Carolina's first town was abandoned in 1672 this plan for Charleston was used on a new site at the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers. It was published in 1809 in David Ramsay's History of South Carolina.
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| Size: 9¼" x 11½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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William Burgis's two-sheet view of Charleston is among the most detailed views of the early colonial city. Seen from the Cooper River, the waterfront is marked by Granville's bastion at the extreme left and Craven's bastion on the right, with such landmarks as St. Philip's Church on the skyline. Set of two.
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| Size: 19½" x 54½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $65.00 |
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