Phelps's National Map of the United States and Travellers Guide – Antique Map Print
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Description
A window into the past: Phelps's National Map of the United States and Travellers Guide, preserved in this antique map. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Phelps's National Map of the United States and Travellers Guide
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Among the holiday scenes on this board, Phelps's National Map of the United States and Travellers Guide stands out as a tool for getting somewhere rather than a picture of the feast. Maps like this one, made for people planning long trips, traced railroad lines, steamboat routes and stagecoach roads across a country that was still building its rail network. The holiday connection is indirect but real: Abraham Lincoln set a national day of Thanksgiving in 1863, and by then many families depended on exactly these routes to get home for it.
| Original scan | 7,855 × 6,252 px · prints to 26 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1852 RR Map |
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