Seller: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

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Good. Sporadic foxing. Size 10.75 x 12.5 Inches. An example of Jeremiah Greenleaf's 1849 map of Arkansas, published in his New Universal Atlas , depicting the state soon after its ascension to the Union. A Closer Look Greenleaf depicts the new state with color-coding at the county level, waterways, towns, roads, swamps, mountains, salt works, sulfur springs, and other features noted throughout. Black dashed lines outline the state's land districts (Helena, White River, Fayetteville, Red River, and Arkansas), each of which contained a land office tasked with surveying the lands therein. Hot Springs, at left, had only been discovered by non-native Americans in 1804 but quickly developed into a resort for convalescents and tourists. In 1832, the lands around the spring were designated as a reservation by the U.S. Congress, the first instance of the federal government protecting lands and an important precursor to the National Park system. Historical Context This map was produced soon after Arkansas joined the Union in 1836. The preceding years had been tumultuous, with large-scale immigration and the confinement or removal of Native Americans. The issue of slavery was also deeply divisive during Arkansas' territorial and early statehood period, with wealthy plantation owners in the southeast strongly favoring it and small-scale farmers in the northwest (including a population of free Black farmers) being indifferent or opposed to slavery. As was the case nationally, the question of slavery also had implications for political representation, and a solution similar to the Three-Fifths Compromise in the U.S. Constitution was brokered at the state level. Arkansas, and particularly the state's southwest, was also important in the years prior to this map's publication as a conduit for migrants, goods, and weapons to Texas, and it has been proposed by at least some historians that Sam Houston and his comrades may have first discussed plans for the Texas Revolution in a tavern in the town of Washington in 1834. Publication History and Census This map was published by Jeremiah Greenleaf in the scarce 1849 (last) edition of his New Universal Atlas . It is based on David Burr's 1835 original, which was published in the latter's atlas of the same name, before being inherited and updated by Greenleaf, who published it in several editions in the 1840s. References: Rumsey 15176.054.…

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Title
Arkansas.
Author
1849 Greenleaf Map of Arkansas
Publication year
1849
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ARKANSAS-LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI

Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps was founded in New York, New York, by Kevin James Brown in 1999. We are specialist antiquarians dealing in historic maps from all over the world and in all price ranges. Our enthusiasm, passion, and devotion to scholarship is expressed in our meticulously researched descriptions, among the most detailed and comprehensive available anywhere, for each and every rare map that passes over our desk. This same devotion guides the relationships of honesty and trust we have fostered with our clients, whether through purchasing or selling a rare map, getting an appraisal, or simply calling to discuss antique maps in general. We are happy to assist you no matter whether you are an interior decorator, an institution, an experienced collector, or are just looking for a single antique map. Geographicus is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the New York Map Society, the Washington Map Society, the IMCOS, and the Society for the History of Discoveries. While primarily an internet-based company, we are happy to meet with clients to show our antique maps by appointment at our New York City location.…

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