1850 Henry Walling Wall Map (1 results)

Very good. Professionally restored and laid down on fresh linen. Size 25 x 33.75 Inches. A scarce 1850 Henry Francis Walling map of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine. Walling began publishing separately issued town plans on his own account in 1850, making this one of his earliest maps. Moreover, of Walling's nearly 150 separately issued town plans, this is one of the largest scale and most highly detailed. A Closer Look With a scale of 1: 3960, Walling meticulously maps nearly every building in both Portsmouth and Kittery, many of which are labeled according to the property owner. Civil, religious, and government buildings are distinguished from residential properties by being rendered as darker blocks. Several sites are of note, such as Frederick Fernald and William Pettigrew's Shipyard on Badger's Island (established 1844), the Portsmouth Athenaeum, Brick Market, the Boston and Portland Railroad Depot, and more. The Kittery Navy Yard is exceptionally well delineated, with buildings noted according to location and purpose. There are two vignettes, one a River view of Portsmouth from Freeman's Point, and another view of the Navy Yard from Central Wharf. An inset map appears in the lower left detailing the Portsmouth Harbor vicinity (1 : 80000). This map has several manuscript annotations, most of which are faded. These include the identification of the Main-New Hampshire border on the Piscataqua River, notations in Kittery, and an unreadable annotation in the upper right, as well as several smaller notes. Publication History and Census This map was drawn by Henry F. Walling based upon earlier survey work supplemented by Walling's own surveys. It was published by Charles Warren Brewster in 1850, in the same year that representatives met to write New Hampshire's Constitution, suggesting that Brewster, who was a member of the Constitutional Committee, may have published this to capitalize on feelings of regional pride and New Hampshire solidarity. We note 6 examples cataloged in OCLC: the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Dartmouth College, the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine, the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, and the Las Vegas Nevada FamilySearch Library. We are aware of 3 additional examples in private hands. References: OCLC 557059776, 22755503. Cobb, D. A. New Hampshire Maps to 1900: An annotated Checklist, #193. New Hampshire Historical Society, 912.778b P853br. Harvard Map Colleciton, HOLLIS 009607170. #183.