Kraetzer, Ludwig Gustav Adolph
Ludwig Gustav Adolph Kraetzer (March 21, 1822 - October 21, 1901), generally publishing as Gustav Kraetzer, was a German-American lithographer and printer based in New York. Kraetzer was born in Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. He was involved with the Revolutions of 1848 and following the suppression was forced to flee Germany. He arrived in the United States, coming through New York, in October of 1850 on the ship William Tell. He became a U.S. citizen several years later in 1856. When Kraetzer arrived in New York it has already a master lithographer, having trained in Germany. His printing concern was widely published and includes decorative prints, views, business products, advertising, and maps. Kraetzer maintained offices on Sheffield Avenue in East New York, Long Island, now part of Brooklyn.
First official map of Nicaragua in its first edition.
Mapa de la Republica de Nicaragua.
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This is Maximilian Sonnenstern's 1858 map of Nicaragua, the first official map of that state, here in its first edition. The map represents the first scientific survey of Nicaragua during a period when that nation held center stage as the most likely route for an interoceanic canal. It, moreover, is the earliest of Sonnenstern's seminal maps of the newly independent Central American republics. This map was followed by similarly significant maps of Guatemala and El Salvador. (more details)