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Description
Detailed map of Arkansas, published by OW Gray.
The map shows towns, townships, roads, railroads, rivers, train stations, lakes, etc.
Gray was one of the most successful atlas publishers of the 1870s and one of the last to employ hand coloring.
O.W. Gray Biography
O. W. Gray was a publishing firm based in Philadelphia. Later, they published as O. W. Gray & Son. They published atlases in the late nineteenth century. Gray's National Atlas was one of the most successful commercial ventures of the 1870s and one of the last to employ hand coloring on maps.