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TANNER, Henry S. (1786-1858)
Ohio and Indiana
Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, 1819-23. Copper-engraving with full period color. Plate mark: 23 1/8 x 28 inches. Sheet size: 23 3/4 x 31 3/8 inches.
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 perhaps other years. Copies of any edition are now quite rare.
The map of Ohio and Indiana originally appeared in the second part of the atlas, published in 1819. It was one of the earliest maps of Indiana as a state (1816). Tanner drew upon a number of important surveys, including those of Bourne, Ellicott, Volney, Darby, Kilbourn, and others. This is the second revised state of the map, from the first collected edition of the atlas of 1823. Virtually all of Indiana north of the Wabash is shown as the land of the "Pattawattima Indians". The Delawares, who had ceded their Indiana lands in October 1818, are no longer mentioned. Developed counties appear only in the southern part of Indiana, where various tribes had ceded three million acres in 1809. Prophetstown, the site of W. H. Harrison's great victory over Tecumseh in 1811, is shown at the confluence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers.
Rumsey, 2589; Phillips, Atlases, 4462; Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, pps. 191-198.
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