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G.W. & C.B. Colton

Title

Map of the State of North Carolina, With portions of Adjoining States . . . 1883

Publication Place / Date

New York / 1883

Image Dimensions

60 x 28.5 inches

Color

Hand Colored

Condition

Stock# 26537

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Description

Scarce large format map of North Carolina, colored by counties, published by GW & CB Colton in New York, on a scale of 6 inches = 50 miles.

Colton's map of North Carolina is one of the most detailed and largest commercial published maps of North Carolina during the period following the Civil War.

Shows counties, cities and towns, principal roads, plank roads, railroads, and natural features plus points of economic interest, such as mines, fisheries, stores, and mills. North Carolina railways named include Wilmington & Weldon Rail Road, Atlantic and North Carolina Rail Road, North Carolina Rail Road, Carolina Central Rail Road, and Western North Carolina Rail Road. Also shows lines from Asheville in progress.

Editions of the map were printed as early as 1866.

Condition Description

Two sheets, joined. Minor fold discoloration, but generally an exceptional example.

G.W. & C.B. Colton Biography

G. W. & C. B. Colton was a prominent family firm of mapmakers who were leaders in the American map trade in the nineteenth century. The business was founded by Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800-1893) who bought copyrights to existing maps and oversaw their production. By the 1850s, their output had expanded to include original maps, guidebooks, atlases, and railroad maps. Joseph was succeeded by his sons, George Woolworth (1827-1901) and Charles B. Colton (1831-1916). The firm was renamed G. W. & C. B. Colton as a result. George is thought responsible for their best-known work, the General Atlas, originally published under that title in 1857. In 1898, the brothers merged their business and the firm became Colton, Ohman, & Co., which operated until 1901, when August R. Ohman took on the business alone and dropped the Colton name.