Item number: NHA326
Genuine Antique Printed Color Map
1878
Maker: Hitchcock.
From an 1878 atlas by Charles H. Hitchcock, the New Hampshire State Geologist, one of the six huge color plates depicting New Hampshire's bedrock geology, this sheet in the northeast portion of the state and includes Umbagog Lake and Coos County, NH; pre-dating the earliest USGS topographic maps of New Hampshire the atlas was the first comprehensive map of the Granite State's bedrock and surficial geology; also shows late 19th century towns and roads. Very good overall antique condition, some minor foxing and very slight lower margin stain, map area measures approx. 24 x 20.5 inches, full sheet measures 33 x 24.5 inches.
Genuine Antique Map from 1878
Item Number: NHA326