NICHOLSON WALTER L Post Route Map of the States of New Hamps

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NICHOLSON, WALTER L. Post Route Map of the States of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Parts of New York and Maine. Engraved map on two sheets, period hand-coloring in outline, sectioned and linen-backed at a contemporary date, housed in contemporary brown cloth slipcase. 62x40 inches in all. Provenance: John Henry Devereux, 1832-1886, President of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis Railway (name stamped in gilt on the slipcase). Washington: 1866 [updated 1 February 1873]

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Rare official Post Route map of New England, owned by the Civil War General in charge of all Union railroad lines and the President of a major railroad company following the war.

Phillips p. 479 (1881 issue); Cf. Virginia W. Mason. The U.S. Post Office Department, Division of Topography: the Conception, Production, and Obsolescence of Postal Mapping in the United States. (unpublished thesis). Madison, WI: Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002.