New Mexico in 1893 - Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Las Cruces
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Staged in Chicago to mark four hundred years since Columbus reached the Americas, the 1893 World's Fair prompted George F. Cram to produce an atlas of ninety state and territory maps, published for Wood Brothers Cash Store of Unadilla, New York. This sheet covers New Mexico, then still nineteen years from statehood.
New Mexico's counties are marked in red outline, and hachures are used to render the relief of the territory's mountain ranges. Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Las Cruces are all labeled among the territory's cities and towns, along with its rivers and indigenous lands and reservations, reflecting the mix of communities present in the territory at the time. Drawn at a scale of 1:2,000,000, the map references both the Greenwich and Washington prime meridians, matching the format used throughout the rest of the atlas, and offers a detailed look at New Mexico as it stood roughly two decades before it entered the Union in 1912.
This print is well suited to a New Mexico family with roots that predate statehood, someone who's since moved away from the territory-turned-state, or a collector working through Cram's full 1893 series. It also makes a fitting housewarming or anniversary gift for a New Mexican. It ships unframed and is available in multiple sizes.
