{"title":"Rhode Island Maps","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntique and vintage maps of Rhode Island, from 19th-century state and regional maps to city plans of Providence and Newport. Every print is made in your region and delivered free.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"massachusetts-and-rhode-island-map-1893-regional-print-boston-providence-worcester","title":"Massachusetts \u0026 Rhode Island Map 1893 Regional Print - Boston, Providence, Worcester","description":"\u003cp\u003eWood Brothers Cash Store of Unadilla, New York, gave this map away to customers in 1893 as a promotional keepsake, bound into a volume that also happened to be one of the more ambitious commercial atlases of its decade. Cartographer George Cram supplied the maps for The Columbian World's Fair Atlas, produced to coincide with the Chicago World's Fair and the 400th anniversary of Columbus's landing in the Americas. What began as a general store's marketing gimmick survives today as a genuine artifact of Gilded Age American mapmaking, printed at a moment when the country was eager to show off its industrial confidence to the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis particular sheet pairs Massachusetts and Rhode Island on a single map at a scale of roughly 1:1,000,000, with state and county lines picked out in hand-applied outline color and terrain rendered in hachure shading rather than modern contour lines. A dedicated inset of Boston gives the city its own close-up treatment, separate from the smaller towns and county seats scattered across the rest of the two states. Two prime meridians, Greenwich and Washington, run along the map's edges, a small reminder that American cartographers of the era were still weighing which reference point deserved primacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA map like this suits anyone with Massachusetts or Rhode Island roots, whether that's a New England transplant who wants a piece of home on the wall or a collector slowly building out a full run of 1893 Cram state maps. If you already have our 1822 antique Massachusetts map, this is a different animal entirely: a late-Victorian atlas print covering both Massachusetts and Rhode Island together, decades younger in style and scope. 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Shewey and Co. It belongs to the first edition of Cram's first \"mass production\" world atlas, sixty-five maps built to bring detailed geography to American households at an accessible price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sheet is printed at a scale of about 1:1,052,842, with each state distinctly color-coded and bold lines marking their boundaries. A dedicated inset of the \"Vicinity of Boston\" gives that city its own close-up treatment apart from the rest of the three-state map. Boston, Providence, and Hartford are all named on the map, along with the roads and railways connecting them, and both Greenwich and Washington prime meridians appear along the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheMapVault also carries a standalone 1838 Bradford atlas map of Connecticut; this later Cram map is different, a three-state sheet covering Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut together, printed decades after that earlier map. 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Bradford's 1838 An Illustrated Atlas, published by Weeks, Jordan \u0026amp; Co. and Wiley and Putnam and considered his best atlas work. By 1838, Rhode Island's textile mills along the Blackstone and Pawtuxet Rivers had already made the smallest state one of the most industrialized places in the country, a legacy of Samuel Slater's original Pawtucket mill from the 1790s — and the political tension that industrial growth created, between an old land-owning class and a rapidly swelling mill-town population with no vote, was only a few years from boiling over into the Dorr Rebellion. Engraved by George W. Boynton at a scale of about 1:290,000, the sheet devotes real detail to one of the original thirteen colonies despite its small footprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dedicated inset of Block Island sits alongside the main map, hand-colored by county in the atlas's signature style, giving equal weight to the mainland's mill towns and the isolated island a few miles off the coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one tends to land with a Rhode Island family, especially anyone with ties to the old mill towns along the Blackstone, or with someone who's left New England behind and wants a piece of Ocean State history on the wall. It also suits a collector building out Bradford's 1838 state series one sheet at a time. 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By this point, New England's textile mills, which had been a novel and expanding industry back when Bradford mapped Massachusetts and Rhode Island in 1838, had matured into a dense, established industrial region — the mill towns along the Blackstone, Merrimack, and Connecticut Rivers were now decades-old institutions rather than new ventures, and the region's rail network, shown in fine detail here, had grown thick enough to connect nearly every one of them. Franklin Type Foundry engraved and electrotyped the sheet, hand-colored with relief shown by hachures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVermont and New Hampshire appear notably less rail-dense than their southern neighbors on this map, a visual reminder that the region's industrial growth had concentrated along the Massachusetts and Rhode Island mill corridors while the northern hill country stayed largely agricultural. 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Tanner, working out of Philadelphia, issued this Massachusetts and Rhode Island 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 J. and W.W. Warr, this printing carries a detailed inset of Boston, its street layout and key sites rendered with a level of urban precision the atlas reserves for only its most significant cities. The sheet covers both states jointly, mapping a corner of New England whose economy by 1841 was already shifting away from its colonial-era farming and shipping base toward the textile manufacturing that would define the region for the rest of the century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoston anchors the sheet's inset, its street grid singled out for detail the rest of the map doesn't extend elsewhere, a reflection of the city's standing as New England's commercial and cultural capital. Cape Cod juts out along Massachusetts's southeastern coast, and Narragansett Bay cuts deep into Rhode Island, both named landmarks that shaped how goods and people moved through a region defined as much by its coastline as by its interior. Roads and railroads are worked in around both, tracking the early rail lines that had begun supplementing the region's older shipping routes by the early 1840s. Together Boston, the Cape, and the Bay sketch a compact, thoroughly settled corner of the country already well into its transition from colonial port economy to industrial manufacturing hub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a Massachusetts or Rhode Island family with Boston, Cape Cod, or Narragansett roots, or a collector building out the region's mid-19th-century maps, this sheet has a specific pull. The store also carries Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined in Cram's 1893 edition and again with Connecticut in his 1883 edition, and separately across three different 1838 Bradford sheets; this 1841 Tanner sheet is the only one of the group to pair the two states together with a dedicated Boston inset rather than splitting them apart or folding in Connecticut. 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M. Bradley \u0026amp; Bro. of Philadelphia, issued this Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island sheet in 1884, part of his New General Atlas published in 1886, drawn and engraved by W.H. Gamble. This printing is hand-colored with relief shown through hachures, combining all three southern New England states onto a single sheet, a broader three-state pairing that no other edition in the collection attempts for this region. The sheet maps Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island jointly, tracking a compact, densely settled corner of New England whose textile-manufacturing economy had, by the 1880s, fully overtaken its older colonial farming and shipping base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll three states' counties are laid out in distinct colors across the sheet, a granular administrative view spanning from Cape Cod and Narragansett Bay in the east to the Connecticut River valley in the west. Railroads crisscross the region on this sheet, a dense network reflecting how thoroughly industrialized southern New England had become by the 1880s compared to the region's earlier, more agricultural decades. Rivers, harbors, and settlements round out the geography, tracing a landscape shaped as much by its mill towns as by its older coastal ports. Together the counties, the railroads, and the settlements sketch a compact region whose 1884 identity was built on manufacturing rather than farming or shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Rhode Island family with late-19th-century roots, or a collector building out New England's maps across the decades, this sheet has a specific pull. The store also carries Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined in Cram's 1893 edition, Connecticut and Massachusetts-and-Rhode-Island separately from Tanner's earlier sheets, and all three states individually in Bradford's 1838 atlas; this 1884 Mitchell sheet is the only one in the store to combine all three states onto a single map. 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Taylor, covering all 48 states in fifty-eight full-color illustrated sheets. This sheet appears on page 91 of the atlas, printed in bright lithographed color and filled with small hand-drawn scenes rather than any conventional survey detail, a style built to entertain a Depression-era audience as much as inform it. Rhode Island is shown here through its coastal and agricultural heritage, the smallest state in the country covered in the same dense illustrative style as its much larger neighbors. Ruth Taylor White and Frank Taylor built the atlas as a joint effort, her illustrations paired with his short, wry captions, and the finished sheets sold well enough during the Depression that Little, Brown kept the title in print for several years after its first release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvidence, Newport, and Woonsocket are all marked among the state's principal towns, each with its own small illustration. 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The store's other Rhode Island editions include Morse's 1845 sheet paired with Massachusetts and the broader New England groupings, both standard survey-style cartography; this 1935 Little, Brown sheet is the only pictorial, cartoon-style map of the state the collection carries. 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Morse and Breese pioneered the cerographic wax-engraving process used here, and this sheet carries an explanation panel decoding its symbols for towns, railroads, canals, and the state capitals of both states, alongside a small scale bar for measuring distance. Both states are shown as long-settled parts of New England, their economies already shifting decisively away from farming and toward the textile mills that were, by this date, transforming their old colonial-era river towns into busy, smoke-belching industrial centers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoston anchors the Massachusetts side as that state's capital and by far the largest city in all of New England, its harbor and rail connections making it the commercial hub for the entire region. Providence serves the same role for Rhode Island, seated at the head of Narragansett Bay and already a significant manufacturing center in its own right. Textile mill towns are marked throughout both states, a settlement pattern distinct from the farming and river towns shown across most of the rest of this atlas. Together the two capitals and the mill towns scattered between them sketch a small, densely settled region already well into its transformation from a farming economy to an industrial one, years ahead of most of the rest of the country in that particular shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Massachusetts or Rhode Island family with roots in the old mill towns will find this sheet catches that transformation directly, and it suits a collector who prefers a single combined view of the two smallest New England states over separate sheets. 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Sotzmann completed only ten of an intended eighteen state maps before the project was abandoned, drawing on American sources including Carey, Blodget, Belknap, and Howell, and this particular sheet was engraved by H. Kliewer as the largest-scale map in the entire series, finished in full hand color by county. It covers Rhode Island at the close of the eighteenth century, seven years after the state became the last of the original thirteen to ratify the Constitution, a small but commercially active corner of New England still finding its footing within the new federal union.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvidence appears as the state's leading town, already emerging as a center of shipping and manufacturing that would soon rival Boston in New England's commercial life. Newport is recorded on its own harbor, a once-dominant Atlantic port whose wharves had built fortunes in the colonial trade with the Caribbean and Europe before the Revolution reshaped its fortunes. Warwick is shown along the shores of Narragansett Bay, a smaller maritime town living in Providence's shadow, while Washington County is delineated as the state's rural southwestern district, given over to farmland rather than trade. Together these places sketch a state split between its bustling bay-front towns and the quieter agricultural county inland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map makes a fitting gift for anyone with family roots in Providence, Newport or the wider Narragansett Bay region, or for a collector drawn to the meticulous, rare cartography of the Ebeling-Sotzmann atlas. As one of only ten Sotzmann state maps ever completed, and reputedly the largest-scale sheet of the series, it holds particular appeal for collectors who prize scarcity alongside decorative quality. 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Burr trained as a surveyor under Simeon DeWitt in New York before compiling the second state atlas ever issued in the United States, and by the 1830s he was serving as official topographer for the United States Post Office, a role that gave him access to survey data few contemporary publishers could match. Contemporaries widely regarded Burr's atlas as the most elegant American commercial production of its era, distinguished by its wash coloring and refined engraving, qualities fully on display in this tri-state sheet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe map shows the large county configurations of all three states, boundaries that Burr's own notes observe have changed surprisingly little in the nearly two centuries since this plate was engraved. Boston anchors Massachusetts as the region's commercial and political capital, Providence sits at the head of Narragansett Bay as Rhode Island's principal port and seat of government, and Hartford, one of Connecticut's two joint capitals at the time, presides over the Connecticut River valley. Together the three states, then among the most densely settled and industrially developed in the young republic, appear here in the elegant style that made Burr's atlas the standard against which other American publishers of the period were measured.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map is a fitting gift for a family with roots anywhere across southern New England, for a transplant now settled in Boston, Providence, or Hartford, or for a collector of Burr's celebrated Universal Atlas. 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Kitchin trained under the map engraver Emanuel Bowen, whose daughter he married, and went on to build one of the most prolific engraving practices in eighteenth-century London, eventually earning the title Hydrographer to the King. He likely based this map on an earlier 1737 survey by Gardner and Kellock, possibly transmitted through William Douglass's mapping of British New England, but Kitchin's compact engraving actually communicates more road and topographical detail than either of those larger source maps managed on considerably bigger sheets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivided into counties and townships, the map records Connecticut and Rhode Island as they stood in the final years before the American Revolution reshaped the political landscape of British America. Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut's twin seats of government, anchor the colony's interior and coastal commerce respectively, while Providence and Newport, Rhode Island's two leading towns, sit along Narragansett Bay as centers of trade and shipbuilding. The map's unusually fine detail for its modest size reflects Kitchin's skill at compressing complex geographic information into a compact, highly legible engraving, a talent that made him one of the most sought-after cartographic engravers of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map is a striking gift for a family with deep Connecticut or Rhode Island roots, for a transplant now settled in New England, or for a collector of scarce colonial-era maps. 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Colton's firm had grown, since its founding in 1831, into one of the primary American publishers of guidebooks, railroad maps and atlases, prized for high-quality steel-plate engraving paired with hand-applied watercolor. This transitional issue precedes Johnson's fully revised atlas of 1863 and is finished with wash-tinted counties beneath a bold carmine state outline. It captures New England at a mature mid-century moment, with rail and steamer networks now knitting the region's cities and coastal towns into a single commercial system rather than a loose scatter of separate ports.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoston is shown with its own detailed inset of the \"Vicinity of Boston,\" keeping Cambridge, Charlestown, Roxbury and Dorchester as independent towns not yet absorbed into the city, with harbor islands and forts individually named. Providence and Newport anchor the enlarged Rhode Island panel, their coastal detail running from Pawtucket down to Little Compton, with bridges and ferries carefully recorded along Narragansett Bay. Worcester and Springfield mark the inland rail corridor threading up the Connecticut Valley, part of the network of lines the map's key distinguishes from common roads and canals. At the state's western edge, \"Boston Corner\" is labeled, the small Massachusetts gore ceded to New York in 1855, a boundary curiosity mapmakers of the period liked to preserve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map suits a gift for a Massachusetts or Rhode Island family with roots in Boston, Providence or the old mill towns of the Blackstone Valley, or for a collector tracing how Colton's plates were recycled and relabeled by successive New York publishers. The store's other Massachusetts maps, including Payne's 1799 state map and Burr's 1836 tri-state edition, show the same ground decades earlier, before the railroads and Boston suburbs recorded here had taken shape. 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This particular sheet is based on the surveys of Caleb Harris, redrawn by his relative Harding Harris, whose original 1795 survey had produced one of the earliest separately published maps of the state, and this example carries rare full original publisher's color rather than the cruder tinting common on later reissued copies. Rhode Island in 1814 remained the smallest of the original states, still governed under its 1663 colonial charter rather than a modern constitution, its economy and settlement still organized around historic town divisions rather than the industrial mill towns that would soon transform it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvidence, the state's largest town and a rising center of shipping and early manufacturing, anchors the map's northern half at the head of Narragansett Bay. Newport, the older colonial seaport on Aquidneck Island, appears along the bay's outer reaches, still recovering from its occupation during the Revolution decades earlier. Warwick, one of Rhode Island's four original 1642 town foundations, sits along the bay's western shore amid the meadows and rivers the map records in detail. Topham Hill is individually marked, one of the modest high points the surveyors singled out in a state whose relief, as one account of the underlying survey put it, amounts to little more than what passes for hills in Rhode Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map is a fitting gift for a Rhode Island family, a Providence or Newport transplant, or a collector building out a set of Carey's pioneering state atlas maps. Few early separately published maps of Rhode Island survive in this level of detail, making it a distinctive addition next to the store's other New England sheets from the same early federal period. 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