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Stock# 105001
Description
Decorative regional map of Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula.
The map is hand colored by counties and showing townships, towns, islands, rivers, bays, mountains, etc.
One of the few obtainable maps of the region from this period with decorative embellishments in the printed title.
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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