New Hampshire and Vermont in 1893 - Concord, Montpelier, Manchester

Wood Brothers Cash Store of Unadilla, New York gave this map away to shoppers in 1893 as part of The Columbian World's Fair Atlas, a promotional volume from Chicago mapmaker George F. Cram issued to commemorate the World's Fair and the 400th anniversary of Columbus's landing in the Americas.

This sheet pairs New Hampshire and Vermont on a single map at a scale of 1:1,000,000, with state and county boundaries in outline color and relief shown through hachure shading. Concord, the New Hampshire capital, and Montpelier, the Vermont capital, are both marked, and the White Mountains straddling the two states' shared border are traced in hachure across the northeast of the sheet, already a tourist draw for city dwellers escaping the summer heat by 1893. New Hampshire's granite quarries, which gave the state its nickname, and Vermont's dairy farms, already the backbone of its rural economy, round out the map's two contrasting economies. The map carries Greenwich and Washington as its prime meridians, a reminder that American cartographers hadn't yet settled on one reference point.

A map like this suits anyone with New England roots, a transplant from either state who wants a piece of home, or a collector working through Cram's 1893 series state by state. It ships unframed and is offered in multiple sizes, an easy pick for a housewarming, anniversary, or birthday gift.