{"product_id":"maine-in-1861-augusta-portland-bangor","title":"Maine in 1861 - Augusta, Portland, Bangor","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlvin Jewett Johnson and Ross C. Browning published this map of Maine from New York in 1861 for their New Illustrated Family Atlas, at the very outset of the Civil War and during the brief year the \"Johnson \u0026amp; Browning\" imprint appeared before Browning sold his share of the firm to Benjamin Ward. Johnson's firm had grown out of the collapse of J.H. Colton's map business, converting Colton's original steel engravings to lithographic stone so the new partnership could print atlases more cheaply and in greater volume than the steel-engraving houses it had effectively succeeded. This sheet delineates Maine's counties in original hand color and is set within Johnson's distinctive rococo strapwork border, the ornamental style the firm used only briefly before switching to a fretwork pattern later in the 1860s. It maps the state a full two decades after the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty had finally settled the long-disputed international boundary along Maine's northern frontier with British North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePortland, Maine's largest port and commercial center on Casco Bay, is set among the coastal islands the map traces in careful detail along the southern shoreline. Augusta, the state capital on the Kennebec River, sits inland at the political center of the state's county structure. Bangor, on the Penobscot, anchors the map's coverage of the state's timber country, linked outward by the rail routes Johnson's sheet takes care to mark expanding across the state. Aroostook County, in Maine's far north, is shown dominated by the vast grid of numbered survey townships rather than named towns, and the map's distinct engraved notation of the Webster-Ashburton line along this same frontier records the treaty that had ended decades of dispute with Britain over exactly where Maine's border actually ran.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 1861 Johnson \u0026amp; Browning edition is a fitting gift for a Maine family with roots in Aroostook County or along the Penobscot and Kennebec valleys, a Portland or Bangor transplant, or a collector interested in the short-lived Johnson \u0026amp; Browning partnership, whose imprint survived barely a year before the firm's ownership changed hands. Its rococo strapwork border is unique to this narrow window of Johnson map production, making it a distinctive marker of exactly when it was printed. It ships unframed and is available in a full range of sizes, from a compact study print to a large wall-scale piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531892068683,"sku":"1916-16x20","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531892101451,"sku":"1916-A2","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531892134219,"sku":"1916-18x24","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531892166987,"sku":"1916-50x70","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531892199755,"sku":"1916-A1","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531892232523,"sku":"1916-24x32","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531892265291,"sku":"1916-70x100","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531892298059,"sku":"1916-75x100","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531892330827,"sku":"1916-A0","price":76.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1916.jpg?v=1789839587","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/en-us\/products\/maine-in-1861-augusta-portland-bangor","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}