New Hampshire in 1838 - Concord, Manchester, Portsmouth

Published in 1838 as part of Thomas G. Bradford's An Illustrated Atlas, this New Hampshire map comes from the Boston and New York firm of Weeks, Jordan & Co. and Wiley and Putnam, an atlas of 39 maps widely considered Bradford's finest. New Hampshire's economy in this period was shifting away from its older timber-and-farming base toward the same textile-mill model reshaping Massachusetts — the Amoskeag mills at Manchester were just getting underway, and within a generation would turn a small mill village into one of the largest textile operations in the country. George W. Boynton engraved the sheet at a scale of about 1:830,000.

The map is hand-colored by county, giving the Granite State's boundaries a crisp, period-accurate finish typical of the atlas as a whole — useful detail for a state whose political geography was, at the time, still catching up to the industrial growth beginning to take hold along its rivers.

Granite Staters with roots anywhere from the Merrimack Valley to the White Mountains tend to want this one, as does anyone who's left New Hampshire and wants a reminder of home, or a collector adding to a shelf of Bradford's 1838 state maps. Sold unframed, offered in several sizes.