Swain, Joseph B. (sold)
Joseph B. Swain (December 31, 1814 - June 17, 1888) was a Nantucket tinsmith, businessman, and insurance agent based in Nantucket, Massachusetts in the middle part of the 19th century. Swain was born and lived most of his life in Nantucket, where he had an insurance business. Later in his life, recognizing Nantucket's allure for tourists, he constructed and managed a hotel, almost certainly the Hotel Nantucket, constructed on Brant Point in 1884. Most likely, promotion of his hotel was what prompted Swain to engage in his only cartographic endeavor, the production of a large sale reissue of Ferdinand Cartwright Ewer's iconic 1869 map of Nantucket. Swain was a teetotaler and a 'birthright member of the Society of Friends.' He died after a brief illness at 73.
'The largest, best-known and most useful Nantucket map.' -Crosby
Historical Map of Nantucket.
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An impressive c. 1886 large scale wall map of Nantucket, Massachusetts. This map is a later, much-enlarged Joseph B. Swain issue of Reverend Ferdinand Cartwright Ewer's (1826 - 1883), seminal 1869 map of Nantucket. It was likely made to promote the Nantucket Hotel, which opened 2 years earlier. According to Nantucket historian, Everett U. Crosby, this is 'The largest, best-known and most useful Nantucket map.' The map is richly detailed and expressive of Nantucket's topography, road system, railroad lines, and even political breakdown. It shows swamps, ponds, important hotels and lighthouses, hills, and more. Some references are dated and correspond to a table located at center. (more details)
Opening of The Nantucket.
The Nantucket.
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A most unusual c. 1886 variant on the Ewer map of Nantucket, published to jointly promote the opening of 'The Nantucket', the island's first grand hotel, and the Old Colony Line's Nantucket / Martha's Vineyard service. (more details)