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1899 National Publishing Map of New England
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Title
The National Publishing Company's New Railroad, Post-Office, Township, and County Map of New England.
1899 (dated) 39.25 x 31.24 in (99.695 x 79.3496 cm) 1 : 760320
1899 (dated) 39.25 x 31.24 in (99.695 x 79.3496 cm) 1 : 760320
Description
This is the 1899 National Publishing Company map of New England, one of the rarer publications of that firm. This colorful map features the firm's distinctive typographical flourishes and large titling. Coverage broadly embraces Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, as well as parts of adjacent New York and Canada. A large inset of Boston and demographic statistics occupy the lower right.
Publication History and Census
This map was printed by the National Publishing Company of Boston in 1899. We note references to both 1899 and 1900 maps of the same title in the OCLC, but no institutional holdings are identified.Cartographer
National Publishing Company (1897 - 1902) was an American map publishing firm founded in Portland, Maine in 1897. The founders, brothers Walter C. Scarborough (June 4, 1862 - May 9, 1904) and Howard G. Scarborough (December 23, 1867 - June 10, 1905), were also proprietors of the Scarborough Company and the Dominion Publishing Company. The National Publishing Company was intended to be managed by Howard, with Walter serving as treasurer. By 1901, the firm had relocated to Boston, where it published and sold large scale brilliantly printed road maps. In 1902, the Scarborough brothers merged their three concerns into the Boston based Scarborough Company and opened an office in Indianapolis, Indiana. Walter and Howard died in 1904 and 1905, both from tuberculous, but the Scarborough Company continued, transferring its offices to Indianapolis. In 1913 it became the Scarborough Motor Guide Company (c. 1913 - c. 1933). It does not appear to be related to the more prominent general publisher of the same name based out of Philadelphia. More by this mapmaker...
Condition
Average. Some areas of loss and infill, particularly in central Maine. Old fold spits and areas of weakness stabilized on verso.
References
OCLC 494800152.