Lithographed map, hand-colored. Lithographed by Britton & Rey. 110x86 cm (43¼x33¼").
Large and striking map centered on Arizona with pieces of the adjacent states and territories, at a time when Arizona was undergoing a mineral boom, and the unavoidable conflict of ranchers, miners, Indians and outlaws. This was issued as a folding map, now flattened with restoration. Warren Heckrotte comments that "Mallery was responsible for an earlier map of Arizona: 'Department of Arizona. Revised 1875. Office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S.Army, Washington, D.C. 1876. First Lieut. J.C. Mallery, Corps of Engineers, Chief Engineer. Under the authority of Major General J.M. Schofield.' This is listed in Arizona Place Names, B.H. Granger, University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1960. p 398."
Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte
Full title: New Map of the Territory of Arizona Southern California and parts of Nevada, Utah and Sonora. Compiled from the latest authentic data by Lieut. J. C. Mallery, A.M. U. S. Engineer Corps, and J. W. Ward, Civil & Topographical Engineer. 1876, 1877. Office 105 Stockton St. San Francisco Cal. Payot, Upham & Company, publishers and wholesale stationers, 204 Sansome Stret, (near Pine) San Francisco. | Scale one Inch to 16 Miles [linear scale] 1: 1,013,760. | Britton, Rey & Co. Lithrs. S.F. | entered according to act of Congress in theyear 1876, by Lieut. J.C. Mallery & J.W. Ward, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. | Table of Authorities | Table of References | Geological Sections from the Verde River to the Gila River, Arizona Ter. from Lieut. Wheeler's Report of 1875
Provenance: K. Harrison, 2/97
References: Wheat TW 1272.
Condition:
Expertly backed with tissue, repairing some crease tears, a few holes and minor loss still evident, coloring bright; the restoration by Anita Noennig.