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Mapping of the New World began with the early explorers in the 1500's and accelerated greatly with the advent of Spanish, French, Dutch and English colonization.

Beautiful and interesting maps continued to be produced until the early twentieth century, when hand printing and coloring surrendered to the vastly cheaper offset lithographic techniques which were becoming available.

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Artist: Carey, Lea and Blanchard
Subject: "United States, Southern Section"
Medium: hand colored copperplate engraving
Size: Paper 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"
Date: Pub. 1830, Philadelphia
Artist: Carey, Lea and Blanchard
Subject: "United States"
Medium: hand colored copperplate engraving
Size: Paper 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"
Date: Pub. 1830, Philadelphia
Artist: Thomas Cowperthwait
Subject: "City of New-York"
Medium: hand colored copperplate engraving
Size: Paper 23" x 20"
Date: Pub. 1850, Philadelphia
Artist: Nicolas Sanson
Subject: "Caroline"
Medium: hand colored copperplate engraving
Size: Paper 23" x 27"
Date: Pub. c.1696, Paris
Artist: Nicolas Bellin
Subject: "Baye de Chesapeak"
Medium: copperplate engraving
Size: Paper 10" x 15 1/2"
Date: Pub. c.1760, Paris
Artist: Joseph H. Colton
Subject: "Alabama"
Medium: hand colored copperplate engraving
Size: Paper 17 1/2" x 14"
Date: Pub. 1855, New York
Artist: S. Augustus Mitchell
Subject: "United States"
Medium: hand colored copperplate engraving
Size: Paper 17 1/2" x 14"
Date: Pub. 1850, Philadelphia
Artist: Augustus Mitchell
Subject: "California"
Medium: hand colored copperplate engraving
Size: Paper 15 1/2" x 12 1/2"
Date: Pub. 1860, Philadelphia
Artist: Henry Abraham Chatalain
Subject: "Nouvelle France"
Medium: hand colored copperplate engraving
Size: Paper 17" x 19 1/2"
Date: Pub. c.1720, Amsterdam