Florida Map 1883 State Print - Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Tampa

This Florida map is drawn from Cram's Unrivaled Family Atlas of the World, copyrighted 1883 by George Franklin Cram and published in Chicago by A.C. Shewey and Co., a first edition considered Cram's first "mass production" world atlas. The sixty-five-map volume was built to bring detailed, current geography to a broad American readership.

Florida is printed here in full or outline color at a scale of about 1:2,500,000, with green marking county boundaries and red highlighting the neighboring state of Georgia, relief shown through hachures. The sheet names Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and Tampa among its cities, and carries an inset map of western Florida detailing its proximity to Alabama and the Gulf of Mexico. St. Augustine, already the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the country by 1883, sat at the northern edge of a citrus industry just beginning to take hold in the state's interior, decades before the hard freezes of the 1890s would push orange groves further south. Both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean are traced along the state's coastline.

This print suits anyone with Florida roots, a family with ties to Jacksonville, St. Augustine, or Tampa, a transplant who left the Sunshine State, or a collector building a run of Cram's 1883 atlas maps. It also makes a fitting housewarming, birthday, or anniversary gift for a Floridian. Every print ships unframed and comes in multiple sizes.