SDUK: North America Sheet III - The Dominion of Canada. Ontario with parts of New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan
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Cartographer:
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SDUK
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Title:
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North America Sheet III - The Dominion of Canada. Ontario with parts of New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan
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Date:
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1875
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Published:
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London
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Width:
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16 inches / 41 cm
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Height:
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13 inches / 34 cm
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Map ref:
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CAN3029
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Description:
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Ontario, the Great Lakes, and the adjacent parts of Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Railways, both complete and planned, are marked on the map, along with canals and roads.
This map was first issued by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) in the 1830s as part of their educational map series intended for "all classes of the community". A total of 209 maps were published over a 14 year period before the Society collapsed. The initial plates were published by Chapman and Hall under the direct supervision of the Society until 1842. In 1852 the plates were sold to George Cox, then to Edward Stanford in 1856, to Thomas Letts in 1877, and finally to Mason & Payne in 1885. This specific example is from an 1875 Edward Stanford edition of the SDUK Atlas.
Consistent with the Society's mission, the maps are informative but not overwhelming, educational but not too dense, and plain without being unattractive. It is no wonder that they remained commercially attractive to later publishers for almost 50 years.
Printed colour. [CAN3029] |