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This printing belongs to the atlas's rare original run, mapping a state whose central location between the eastern seaboard and the western frontier had made it a natural crossroads for rail traffic moving in every direction by the late 1870s. Indiana is shown here as a fully settled state, its townships surveyed from the Ohio River in the south to the shore of Lake Michigan in the north, more than sixty years after it had first entered the Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndianapolis anchors the map at the state's center, its position chosen decades earlier specifically to sit equidistant from Indiana's borders, and by 1878 that central location had made it a genuine rail hub with lines converging from every direction. Fort Wayne appears to the northeast as a secondary hub along the same network, while Evansville sits in the state's far southwest on the Ohio River, its river trade predating the railroads by decades. 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Bradford began his publishing career working on the American Encyclopedia before editing an English-language edition of Adrian Balbi's geographical atlas, and by the late 1830s he had established himself as a leading figure in American educational geography, publishing his own comprehensive Illustrated Atlas Geographical, Statistical and Historical of the United States in 1838. This map of Indiana, colored by county, captures a state twenty-five years after statehood, its administrative grid now largely filled in across both the settled south and the more recently organized north.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTowns, rivers, lakes, roads, and other important details fill the sheet, reflecting a state whose population had grown substantially since the 1820s as settlers pushed steadily northward from the Ohio River valley. Indianapolis anchors the state as its centrally located capital, a deliberate choice made two decades earlier to encourage even development across the state, while Evansville, on the Ohio River in the state's southwest, and Terre Haute, on the Wabash River to the west, mark two of Indiana's most important river commerce towns during this period. The map's comprehensive county coloring illustrates just how thoroughly Indiana's settlement pattern had matured within a single generation of statehood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map is a fitting gift for a family with Indiana roots, for a transplant now settled in Indianapolis or along the Wabash, or for a collector of Bradford's distinctive historical atlas. 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Finley had entered the map trade only a decade or so earlier and would go on to produce his best-selling New General Atlas the following year, but this earlier separate sheet captures the region in genuinely transitional form, years before his atlases would present it as settled, organized states. The map includes a statistical table recording each state's size, population, historical population figures, and capital, a practical reference feature typical of Finley's careful, functional style. Published less than a decade after Illinois achieved statehood and while Michigan remained an unorganized territory, the map documents the Old Northwest in the middle of the long process of subdividing Indian land into American counties and townships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichigan appears here as a bare-bones territory of just ten counties clustered around a small handful of towns, with the rest of its land still marked as belonging to the Miamis and Ottawas. Illinois shows a set of oversized northern counties - Fayette, Edgar, and Clark - stretching nearly to the state's northern border and bounded by the Sauk and Fox Indian boundary, with Edgar County bending eastward specifically to take in Chicago and Fort Dearborn, then still a small frontier outpost rather than a city. Indiana's north is dominated by two large blocks of Potawatomi and Kickapoo land, with Allen County standing as the first county formally organized in that part of the state, while a vestigial Northwest Territory designation and an undefined Crawford County still linger on the map, delineated for the Ho-Chunk nation. The map extends even further into Missouri and Missouri Territory, marking Sioux and Iowa lands at its western edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a compelling gift for a Midwest family with roots in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, or Michigan, or for a collector drawn to the Old Northwest's territorial period, when Chicago was still Fort Dearborn and Michigan had yet to become a state. Finley's map predates by decades the fully subdivided, railroad-crossed Midwest atlases the region would later produce, making this an unusually early and genuinely transitional snapshot of a region most buyers know only in its later, more settled form. 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