{"product_id":"arizona-in-1909-phoenix-tucson-prescott","title":"Arizona in 1909 - Phoenix, Tucson, Prescott","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge F. Cram's company issued this large map of the Arizona Territory around 1909, three years before statehood, at a moment when the territory's railroad network, mining industry, and land management were all being mapped with growing precision. Cram had built his Chicago-based firm into one of the country's major atlas publishers after taking sole control from his uncle Rufus Blanchard in 1869, and by 1909 the company was known for detailed color-coded reference maps rather than the more decorative work of earlier decades. This sheet uses distinct colors to separate railroad lines, forest reserves shown in green, military reservations in purple, and Indian reservations in red, layering several categories of federal land management over the territory's mining towns and settlements. The map includes Greenlee County, split off from Graham County only in March 1909, which helps date this printing to the final months before Arizona's admission to the Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhoenix appears as the territorial capital at the map's center, with Tucson marking the older, historically dominant settlement of the territory's south and Prescott representing the mining and ranching country of the central highlands, itself a former territorial capital in its own right. The map's color-coded overlays are its real subject: forest reserves protecting the territory's mountain timberlands, military reservations guarding strategic points, and Indian reservations marking land set aside under federal policy, all layered across a landscape still dense with active mining towns. Railroad lines, rendered in their own distinct color, trace the routes that were, by this date, finally connecting Arizona's mining districts to national markets ahead of statehood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a fitting gift for an Arizona family celebrating the territory's road to statehood, a Phoenix or Tucson transplant, or a collector assembling a set of pre-statehood Arizona maps documenting the territory in its final years. This Cram edition, current enough to include Greenlee County's creation just months before publication, sits later and more administratively precise than the store's 1885 Phoenix bird's-eye view, the two together tracing Arizona's growth from a single frontier town to a fully surveyed, soon-to-be state. It is available unframed in a full range of sizes, from a compact study print to a larger statement piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531607839051,"sku":"SKU1847-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531607871819,"sku":"SKU1847-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531607904587,"sku":"SKU1847-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531607937355,"sku":"SKU1847-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531607970123,"sku":"SKU1847-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531608002891,"sku":"SKU1847-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531608035659,"sku":"SKU1847-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531608068427,"sku":"SKU1847-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531608101195,"sku":"SKU1847-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1847.jpg?v=1789816578","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/arizona-in-1909-phoenix-tucson-prescott","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}