Meisel, Augustus
Augustus Meisel (December 12, 1824 - January 24, 1885) was a German-American lithographer active in Boston during the mid-19th century. Born in Baden, Germany, Meisel immigrated to the United States United States with his brother Berthold (December 10, 1831 - April 5, 1915). The pair arrived in New Orleans on December 5, 1848. They were 48ers, those middle-class Germans who emigrated to the United States to avoid persecution associated with participating in the failed 1848 Springtime of the Peoples Revolutions. Augustus became a naturalized American citizen on September 3, 1855, with Berthold receiving his citizenship a little over a month later. The brothers worked together as lithographers in Boston until Augustus's death. He died January 24, 1885, of pneumonia.
Boston's expansion and urbanization.
Plan of Boston, Corrected under the Direction of...
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This is an 1866 city map of Boston produced by Nathaniel Henry Crafts, head of the Boston City Engineer's Office. It reflects the city as it had just taken on a recognizable form, with massive landfill projects in the Back Bay, South Boston, and East Boston, and an increasing number of bridges linking Boston with Cambridge and Charlestown. (more details)
Emerging 'Sportsman's Paradise'.
Map of Moosehead Lake and Northern Maine, embracing the headwaters of the Penobscot, Kennebec and St. John rivers specially adapted to the uses of sportsmen and lumbermen.
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A fascinating map of the region around Moosehead Lake in northern Maine, prepared in 1883 by Lucius Hubbard and lithographed by Augustus Meisel as an addendum to the first edition of Hubbard's Woods and Lakes of Maine. It reflects early efforts to improve access to the lake, marking the beginning of the tourism boom in this region. (more details)