Ohio Map 1841 State Print - Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland

Henry S. Tanner, working out of Philadelphia, issued this Ohio sheet in 1841, included in the 1842 edition of his New Universal Atlas, the last he personally published after three decades spent building a reputation as one of America's most trusted cartographers. Engraved by E.B. Dawson, this printing carries both an inset profile of the Ohio Canal, charting its elevation changes, and a separate detailed inset of Cincinnati, an unusually generous double treatment for a single state sheet. The sheet maps Ohio statewide, in the middle of the canal era that had already connected the Ohio River to Lake Erie and was actively reshaping the state's economy around water-borne trade.

The Ohio Canal's elevation profile anchors the sheet's engineering detail, tracking the waterway that linked the state's northern and southern trade networks together. Cincinnati's inset singles out the city for street-level attention the rest of the map doesn't extend elsewhere, a reflection of its standing as Ohio's largest and most commercially significant city on the Ohio River. County boundaries are shaded distinctly across the state, and roads and distances round out the sheet's transportation layer. Together the canal profile, the Cincinnati inset, and the county pattern sketch a state whose 1841 growth ran on both its river port and its new canal.

For an Ohio family with Cincinnati or canal-town roots, or a collector building out Ohio's 19th-century maps, this sheet has a specific pull. The store also carries Ohio from Bradford's 1838 atlas and Cram's later 1893 edition; this 1841 Tanner sheet is the only one of the group to pair a Cincinnati city inset with the Ohio Canal's own elevation profile on a single sheet. It's printed unframed and available in a range of sizes to fit whatever wall it's headed for.