Map of Connecticut
PrintmakerLithographed by
Kellogg & Bulkeley
(American, 1867 - 1990)
PublisherPublished by
Hamersley & Co.
(American, 1868 - 1877)
Date1875
MediumLithography; black printer's ink and watercolor on wove paper, in cardboard covers
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 17 7/8 x 23in. (45.4 x 58.4cm)
Sheet (height x width): 19 1/2 x 27 1/2in. (49.5 x 69.9cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
Object number1949.20.2
DescriptionPocket map of Connecticut, with the border of Massachusetts to the north, Rhode Island to the east, part of Long Island and the Long Island Sound to the south, and New York to the west. The state is divided into counties, outlined in red, and towns, colored blue, green, yellow, pink or peach. Roads and railroads are shown, including the Danbury and Norwalk; Housatonic; New Haven and Northampton; Air Line; New Haven, Hartford and Springfield; Western; Connecticut Valley; New London Northern; and Norwich and Worcester Railroads. Included with the map is a booklet listing the towns in each county and their populations for the 1860 and 1870 census.
Label TextWilliam James Hamersley was a bookseller and publisher in Hartford, Connecticut beginning in the 1830s, but he does not appear to have issued any maps in those early years when so many Hartford booksellers were getting into the map publishing business. This map of Connecticut dates from 1875, at a time when most maps were being printed and published elsewhere. It was printed by Kellogg & Bulkeley, a long-established Hartford lithography firm.
NotesCartographic Note: Scale: 1 inch equals 4 1/2 milesDate Note: Although the booklet accompanying the map is dated 1875, and the map was apparently published in that year, it does not include the town of Newington, incorporated in 1871, and Thomaston, incorporated in 1875, still appears as Plymouth Hollow.
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