Antique hand-colored map of Hancock County, Maine, featuring pastel pink, blue, and green sections on an aged beige paper background with fine black and gray linework.

1885 - Map of Hancock County, Maine - Antique Map

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Item number: NEW071

Genuine Antique Hand-Colored Map

1885

Maker: Colby.

 

Antique hand-colored map of Hancock County, Maine, from the 1885 Colby Atlas of Maine. Shows Mount Desert Island, Isle Au Haut, Penobscot Bay, and many lakes including Nicatous Lake. 

Hancock County includes the towns of Amherst, Aurora, Bar Harbor, Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Bucksport, Castine, Cranberry Isles, Dedham, Deer Isle, Eastbrook, Ellsworth, Franklin, Frenchboro, Gouldsboro, Great Pond, Hancock, Lamoine, Mariaville, Mount Desert, Orland, Osborn, Otis, Penobscot, Prospect Harbor, Sedgwick, Sorrento, Southwest Harbor, Stonington, Sullivan, Surry, Swan's Island, Tremont, Trenton, Verona, Waltham, and Winter Harbor.

Measures 16 x 24 inches. Good condition with some toning overall and some separations along the folds at left and right. The lighting of the photo makes the map look more washed-out than it appears in person.

Genuine Antique Map from c. 1885.

Item Number: NEW071