Alabama in 1893 - Montgomery, Birmingham, Mobile

The atlas this map was pulled from was built to impress: 194 pages, ninety maps, bound in brown cloth with a gilt-stamped title, produced by George F. Cram & Co. of Chicago and published for Wood Brothers Cash Store of Unadilla, New York, to commemorate the 1893 Columbian Exposition. This sheet is the Alabama map from that volume.

Alabama's counties are marked in red outline against the map, with blue shading tracing the state's borders and its rivers and coastal areas along the Gulf. Cities and towns are labeled throughout at the map's scale of 1:1,800,000, and a longitude-and-latitude grid keyed to the Greenwich and Washington prime meridians runs across the sheet, a level of technical precision typical of Cram's post-Reconstruction-era state maps. It's a clear, functional view of Alabama's counties and settlements as they stood in 1893.

This print is well suited to an Alabama family tracing roots to a particular county, a former resident who's since moved elsewhere, or a collector building a full set of Cram's 1893 state maps. It also makes a solid housewarming or birthday gift for an Alabamian. TheMapVault's existing Alabama Vintage Map print is a separate, more general item; this listing is specifically the 1893 Cram Columbian World's Fair Atlas view of the state. It ships unframed and is available in multiple sizes.