1887 Bradley Map of Iowa and Missouri

IowaMissouri-bradley-1887
$100.00
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1887 Bradley Map of Iowa and Missouri

IowaMissouri-bradley-1887

$100.00

Title


County & Township Map of the States of Iowa and Missouri.
  1887 (dated)     22.5 x 15 in (57.15 x 38.1 cm)

Description


A fine example of William M. Bradley's 1887 map of Iowa and Missouri. The map covers both states of Iowa and Missouri in fine detail along with parts of neighboring Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Minnesota and Illinois. Bradley also delineates survey grids referencing the work of the U.S. Land Survey. This map also identifies various cities, towns, rivers, railroads, settlements and an assortment of additional topographical details. Map is color coded according to territorial and political boundaries with elevation rendered by hachure. Copyrighted 1887 by Wm. M. Bradley & Bro., as plate nos. 74 and 75 in the 1890 edition of Mitchell's New General Atlas.

CartographerS


Bradley, Garretson and Co. (fl. c. 1880 - 1900) were prominent cartographic publishers active in the later part of the 19th century. Bradley acquired Samuel Augustus Mitchell Junior's atlas plates in the late 1880s which he used to publish his own version of Mitchell's atlas. The firm had offices both in Philadelphia, at 66 North Fourth Street, and in Brantford, Ontario. More by this mapmaker...


Samuel Augustus Mitchell (March 20, 1792 - December 20, 1868) began his map publishing career in the early 1830s. Mitchell was born in Bristol, Connecticut. He relocated to Philadelphia in 1821. Having worked as a school teacher and a geographical writer, Mitchell was frustrated with the low quality and inaccuracy of school texts of the period. His first maps were an attempt to rectify this problem. In the next 20 years Mitchell would become the most prominent American map publisher of the mid-19th century. Mitchell worked with prominent engravers J. H. Young, H. S. Tanner, and H. N. Burroughs before attaining the full copyright on his maps in 1847. In 1849 Mitchell either partnered with or sold his plates to Thomas, Cowperthwait and Company who continued to publish the Mitchell's Universal Atlas. By about 1856 most of the Mitchell plates and copyrights were acquired by Charles Desilver who continued to publish the maps, many with modified borders and color schemes, until Mitchell's son, Samuel Augustus Mitchell Junior, entered the picture. In 1859, S.A. Mitchell Jr. purchased most of the plates back from Desilver and introduced his own floral motif border. From 1860 on, he published his own editions of the New General Atlas. The younger Mitchell became as prominent as his father, publishing maps and atlases until 1887, when most of the copyrights were again sold and the Mitchell firm closed its doors for the final time. Learn More...

Source


Huber, John. Mitchell's New General Atlas, containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc., Embraced in Ninty-Three Quarto Maps, forming a series of One Hundred and Forty-seven Map and Plans, together with Valuable Statistical Tables., 1890    

Condition


Very good. Map of St. Louis, Missouri on verso. Original centerfold. Small verso repair along centerfold.

References


Rumsey 0594.037.