{"product_id":"delaware-maryland-in-1862-dover-annapolis-baltimore","title":"Delaware and Maryland in 1862 - Dover, Annapolis, Baltimore","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlvin Jewett Johnson published this map of Delaware and Maryland from New York City in 1862 under the \"Johnson \u0026amp; Ward\" imprint, the partnership formed after Ross Browning sold his share of the original Johnson \u0026amp; Browning firm amid the outbreak of civil war the year before. The map is set within a decorative border and includes engraved vignettes of federal Washington landmarks, the Post Office, Treasury Building, Patent Office, and Capitol, alongside a view of Harpers Ferry, then recent news as the site of John Brown's 1859 raid and, by 1862, a contested town changing hands repeatedly between Union and Confederate forces. Johnson's firm, having converted the original Colton steel engravings it acquired to cheaper lithographic stones, could print and update maps like this one faster than the steel-engraving houses it competed against, an advantage that mattered as wartime geography shifted month to month. The sheet colors Delaware and Maryland by county and lays in towns, railroads, roads, post offices, and rivers in dense, businesslike detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDover anchors Delaware as its capital, a small but long-established seat of government for the smallest state shown on the sheet. Annapolis holds the same role for Maryland, its position on the Chesapeake unchanged since the colonial era depicted on the store's much earlier Speed-Lamb map of the region. Baltimore, Maryland's dominant commercial city, appears connected by rail lines the map traces reaching out toward the Pennsylvania border and south toward Washington. The Harpers Ferry vignette, though the town itself sits just across the Maryland line in western Virginia, underscores how directly this 1862 edition was shaped by the war then underway, a contrast with the purely commercial detail found on the firm's prewar Maine map also carried in this store.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 1862 Johnson \u0026amp; Ward edition makes a meaningful gift for a Delaware or Maryland family with Civil War-era roots, a Baltimore or Dover transplant, or a collector interested in how wartime events like Harpers Ferry found their way onto an otherwise ordinary commercial reference map. Among the store's Maryland-region sheets, this is the only one to pair Delaware and Maryland together at county-level detail, distinct from Bradford's single-state 1838 Maryland map and the broader multi-colony 1676 and 1745 editions. It is available unframed 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":58531895869771,"sku":"1919-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531895902539,"sku":"1919-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531895935307,"sku":"1919-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531895968075,"sku":"1919-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531896000843,"sku":"1919-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531896033611,"sku":"1919-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531896066379,"sku":"1919-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531896099147,"sku":"1919-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531896131915,"sku":"1919-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1919.jpg?v=1789839583","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/delaware-maryland-in-1862-dover-annapolis-baltimore","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}