Maine in 1893 - Portland, Augusta, Bangor

In 1893, Wood Brothers Cash Store of Unadilla, New York gave this map to customers as a promotional keepsake bound into The Columbian World's Fair Atlas, produced by Chicago publisher George F. Cram to coincide with the Columbian Exposition and the 400th anniversary of Columbus's landing in the Americas.

This outline color map maps Maine at a scale of 1:1,700,000, with relief shown through hachure shading and the Atlantic Ocean coastline clearly marked along the state's southern border. Portland, Augusta, and Bangor are all labeled on the sheet, along with the counties of York, Cumberland, and Aroostook, the last of these just beginning its transformation into potato-farming country in the 1890s after decades as mostly timberland. Bangor itself was still riding the tail end of its reign as one of the world's busiest lumber ports, floating logs down the Penobscot from the northern forests. Railroads and major roads are depicted, and the map carries Greenwich and Washington as its prime meridians.

A print like this suits anyone with Maine roots, a transplant who left the Pine Tree State and wants a piece of it on the wall, or a collector chasing a full run of Cram's 1893 state maps. It arrives unframed and is offered in multiple print sizes, a fitting housewarming, birthday, or anniversary gift.