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Early map of Alabama, showing counties, townships, towns, roads, railroads, etc.
Morse & Breese's North American Atlas was a landmark in American Cartography, being the first atlas to employ the cerographic printing process, which would revolutionize the map trade. The Morse family and this process are the subject of David Woodward's The All American Map. The maps were first printed in a series of inserts which appeared in the New York Post, and then later as a separate atlas.
An essential map for American Map collectors, illustrating an important change in the history of printed maps and the only truly American cartographic publishing innovation.
Sidney E. Morse (1794–1871), son of the noted geographer Jedidiah Morse, was a prominent American inventor, journalist, and mapmaker. He is best known for his innovative contributions to cartography, particularly through the development of Morse's Cerographic Maps in the 1830s, which utilized a wax-engraving process to create affordable and easily reproducible maps. Sidney co-founded the New York Observer in 1823, a leading religious newspaper, and later published The Cerographic Atlas of the United States (1842), a groundbreaking work that made accurate maps widely accessible. His techniques advanced the field of mapmaking, particularly in terms of affordability and mass distribution.
![Rand McNally Standard Map of Alabama [Rand McNally Indexed Pocket Map]](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/87091.jpg)
![[ Alabama and Mississippi ] Chart of the Sources of the Mobile and of the River Yazoo Including a part of the Course of the Mississipi From the River Margot to the Natches.](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/78960.jpg)
![(Southern Travel Journal) [Manuscript travel journal to Mobile, Alabama by Andrew Clark, Jr. of Methuen, Massachusetts, also Florida coast, and by horseback through Kentucky and Tennessee and up the Mississippi north to Pittsburgh]](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/93034.jpg)
