Digital Image: 1884 Upton and Co. Folding Map of Auckland, New Zealand
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Title
Upton and Co.'s New Map of the City and Suburbs of Auckland.
1884 (undated) 22 x 34.5 in (55.88 x 87.63 cm) 1 : 7920
1884 (undated) 22 x 34.5 in (55.88 x 87.63 cm) 1 : 7920
Description
FOR THE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP, WITH HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, CLICK HERE.
Digital Map Information
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Upton and Company (1864 - 1914) was a bookseller, stationer, and publisher based in Auckland, New Zealand. The company was founded by William Brown Upton (1840 - 1870), a native of Lincolnshire, England who emigrated to New Zealand in 1858, setting up a bookseller shop in 1864. His brother John Henry Upton (1845 - 1929) arrived in Auckland two years later and became his business partner (going by several names, including Upton, Upton Brothers, W. B. and J. H. Upton, and Upton and Co.), which allowed the business to continue after William's untimely death from illness at age 29. Afterwards, the younger Upton managed the business with his brother-in-law William Gorrie (1840 - 1911). John Henry Upton was a busy man who took on many business and civic roles - including director of several companies, chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, and Mayor of Auckland (1890 - 1891) - presumably leaving Gorrie to handle much of the publishing and bookselling. Upton's sons Parker Tasker (1877 - 1955) and Selwyn (1878 - 1922) also became involved in the business and took over management of it in 1909. But the company ran into financial difficulties and was sold to Whitcombe and Tombs (later Whitcoulls) in 1916. More by this mapmaker...
Wilson and Horton (1876 - 2002) was an Auckland, New Zealand-based printer, publisher, and media company, best known for publishing the New Zealand Herald and Auckland Weekly News. The company functioned as a remarkable multigenerational partnership between two families from 1876, when brothers William Scott Wilson and Joseph Liston Wilson (whose father William Chisholm Wilson had founded the New Zealand Herald in 1863) and Alfred George Horton. While newspapers remained their mainstay, the firm also published books and occasionally maps and other media, mostly relating to New Zealand. The company went through several rounds of restructuring in the late 20th century, with the Irish Independent News and Media Group purchasing the Horton portion of the business in 1996, though the name Wilson and Horton continued to be used until 2002. Later, the Australian APN News and Media purchased the New Zealand Herald, continuing to publish a print version down to the present but increasingly focusing on the newspaper's online edition. Learn More...
References
OCLC 949676364.