Leavitt's map with views of the White Mountains, New Hampshire : 1871. Pictorial map. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the bottom. Includes distance lists and ill. Inset: Railroad map of the Canadas and United Combining folk art with a schematic tourist map, this unusual map views the White Mountains from the northwest. In the center, the mountains were drawn in landscape format surrounded by curious vignettes including “Old Crawford Killing a Bear” and “Harry Crawford Killing a Lynx”. Along the top are a railroad map and views of waterfalls, while symbolic images of h
Leavitt's map with views of the White Mountains, New Hampshire : 1871. Pictorial map. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the bottom. Includes distance lists and ill. Inset: Railroad map of the Canadas and United Combining folk art with a schematic tourist map, this unusual map views the White Mountains from the northwest. In the center, the mountains were drawn in landscape format surrounded by curious vignettes including “Old Crawford Killing a Bear” and “Harry Crawford Killing a Lynx”. Along the top are a railroad map and views of waterfalls, while symbolic images of hotels, stage coaches, and trains alert readers to the region’s tourist amenities. Leavitt, a laborer, mountain guide, and self-taught mapmaker, created this pictorial map. Reflecting his regional bias, he located Lancaster, his hometown, and the Connecticut River in the center , New Hampshire , White Mountains
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