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Stock# 7561
Description
Beautiful and highly detailed map of Maine, colored by townships and showing outline borders for the counties. Also shows, railroads, stations, towns, rivers, lakes, islands, etc. The map curiously retains the 1855 J.H. Colton copyright date.
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.
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