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TANNER, Henry S. (1786-1858)
Map of Louisiana and Mississippi
Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, 1819-23. Copper-engraving with full period color. Plate mark: 29 1/8 x 23 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 31 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches.
Early American map of Louisiana (admitted 1812) and the quite recently admitted (1817) State of Mississippi
Henry Tanner's A New American Atlas, was the most distinguished atlas published in America during the nineteenth century. The maps were carefully constructed from the best and most recent surveys. They were finely engraved on a large-scale, printed on high quality paper, and carefully hand colored. Because of the great expense involved in the production and publication, the atlas was published in five parts between 1819 and 1823. A collected edition appeared in the latter year, with subsequent editions in 1825, 1833, 1839, and possibly other years. Copies of any edition are now quite rare.
Tanner added this fine map to the third part of the atlas in 1820. It is one of the first maps of the new State of Mississippi, created in December 1817. This is the second state of the map, with some corrections and additions, which was published in the first collected edition of the atlas in 1823. Mississippi is still in a very primitive condition. The recent "Choctaw Purchase" in west central Mississippi has been added to this second state of the map, but all of the northern part of Mississippi is still in the hands in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. Organized counties appear only in the southern one-third of the state, and the state's cotton economy would not begin to boom until the final relocation of the Indian tribes to Oklahoma in the early 1830s. There are many interesting legends and notations. Additional changes were made in later additions.
Rumsey, 2589; Phillips, Atlases, 4462; Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, pps. 191-198.
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