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Manuscript map of St. Augustine Florida ca. 1863. The lighthouse is the old light, not used after 1874.
Under magnification, notations on the map identify positions of Union forces- the 7th Connecticut near the Hospital, and the 7th New Hampshire volunteers at the entrenchments where the full description reads “Entrenchments thrown up by the 7th N.H. Vol.” With online sources we can tie the seventh New Hampshire to St Aug from September 3, 1862 to May 10, 1863. The Seventh Connecticut was in St. Aug from April 13, 1863 to August 2, 1863.
The illustration and quotation on this trade card were not unique to John Cosgrove but rather part of a stock design widely used by 19th-century printers who specialized in producing humorous or sentimental advertising cards. Lithographers commonly kept catalogs of ready-made comic scenes—like this seaside mother-and-child vignette with the line “It’s a wise child that knows its own mother at the sea side”—which merchants could customize by adding their own business imprint below. In this case, the printer simply inserted Cosgrove’s name, trade description, and Poydras Market address into the blank advertising panel at the bottom, allowing a small New Orleans fish dealer to benefit from professionally printed imagery at a fraction of the cost of commissioning original artwork.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1863
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: Atlantic Ocean
CONDITION: Fair
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