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Separately Published Map of Georgia
Scarce separately published pocket map edition of GW & CB Colton's map of Georgia.
Shows roads, railroads, towns, villages, post offices, rivers, lakes, stations and a host of other details. Decorative border.
A terrific map, from GW & CB Colton, one of the most prolific American mapmaker families of the mid-19th Century.
While the atlas version of the map appears with some frequency, the pocket map versions are much scarcer on the market.
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.
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