Pocket Map Of / Alaska / Issued By / Northern Navigation / Company [cover.title]

(Map / Ak / 1915)

Published by Press Of Carlisle & Co;  San Francisco;   pp.;  Wraps;  VG;  1915, 1915

About this Item

Single sheet, 20 x 27.25", printed on one side and folded to 24 panels._____  Mounted into heavy paper covers, 6.75 x 3.75"._____  The covers are lightly worn, the map has a couple of 1/2" splits to the fold edges._____ The front cover boasts of the Northern Navigation Company  being the route to the Alaskan gold fields._____  Being from 1915, we think this is an unreasonably optimistic enticement._____ The rear cover provides tables of distances between towns in the interior as well as between ports on the Bering Sea coast._____ The map was compiled and drawn by John M. Punnett._____   It is in three colors._____  Canada is in pink, Alaska in white and the oceans in pale green._____ Overprinted in red with the various routes of the N.N. Co from Seattle and San Francisco to ports on the west coast of Alaska._____ Also in red are inland routes as far inland as Settles, Fort Yukon and Fairbanks._____  One of these is labeled as the "Winter Trail."_____  Others may represent the NNC's river steamboat routes._____ Some towns are printed in red, some in black with no reason given for the differentiation._____ There are black & white inset maps of:  Iditarod, Innoko and Muskokwim district, Aleutian Islands and the Fairbanks District._____ With a table of towns having wireless telegraph stations._____ There is the circular logo of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition below the circular Northern Navigation logo on the map._____ Not apparent in WorldCat._____.

Seller Inventory # P-02817

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pocket Map Of / Alaska / Issued By / Northern Navigation / Company [cover.title]
• Publisher: Press Of Carlisle & Co; San Francisco; pp.; Wraps; VG; 1915
• Publication Date: 1915
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • .EPHEMERA
  • .Western Americana
  • .Maps