DESCRIPTION: Fine original lithographed map showing the marches of the United States Forces under command of Major General W.T. Sherman U.S.A. during the years 1863, 1864, 1865.
Drawn by Captain William Kossak in St. Louis MO and printed by the American Photo Lithographic Company of New York using "Osborne's process." [1] The map was compiled by order of General Sherman under the direction of Brevet. Major W.L.B. Jenney. It covers the region bounded by Mobile in the south, Washington and St. Louis in the north, Chesapeake Bay to the east and to the west by Little Rock, Arkansas.
[1] Osborne's process was a photo-lithographic process based on a large copy camera and photo-sensitized transfer paper made from photo negatives. By 1866 the American Photolithographic Company operated a massive copy camera with a 14 foot platform at its Brooklyn plant. The huge apparatus was capable of reproducing drawings up to forty-eight by sixty inches. (Reps, John William. Views and View makers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States … University of Missouri Press. 1984. pp 36, 37.)
PUBLICATION DATE: 1865
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: N/A
CONDITION: Very good.
Solid on heavy paper. Uniformly age toned. Rolled with no folds.
COLORING: Hand-colored inked indicator lines.
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 37
" x
21 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 53
PRICE: $850
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