Item number: CAM071
Genuine Antique Folding Bird's Eye View Map, in paper folder
1905
Maker: Webster Publishing.
Colorful antique United Fruit Company lithograph map of Jamaica, in the Caribbean, folded in original blue paper cover. United Fruit Company operated steamships that brought tourists from Boston to Jamaica and also carried bananas from Central America and the Caribbean to the US. In 1900, the United Fruit Company produced The Golden Caribbean: A Winter Visit to the Republics of Colombia, Costa Rica, Spanish Honduras, Belize and the Spanish Main – via Boston and New Orleans written and illustrated by Henry R. Blaney. The travel book featured landscapes and portraits of the inhabitants pertaining to the regions where the United Fruit Company possessed land. It also described the voyage of the United Fruit Company's steamer, and Blaney's descriptions and encounters of his travels. Map in Very good overall antique condition, folder very good, but wrinkled, Approx. 18 x 22.75 inches unfolded.
Genuine Antique Map from 1905.
Item Number: CAM071