Lloyd’s Military Maps

by Lloyd, H.H. And Company

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Book Description

New York: H.H. Lloyd & Company, 1861 A DISTINCTIVE CIVIL WAR MAP Hand-colored lithograph Paper size: 27” x 36”; framed size: 45” x 36 1/2” Few families during the Civil War were without someone involved in the armed forces, explaining the high demand for maps that provided accurate and up-to-date geographical information. These maps were also used to bolster the patriotic impulses of the populace by keeping them imaginatively involved in the war. Publishers in New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Boston took advantage of this burgeoning market, increasing map production to unprecedented levels. The Civil War marked the advent of American commercial mapmaking. Lloyd's Military Maps, published by H.H. Lloyd and Company in the year 1861 in New York, is characteristic of maps produced at this time in the North. Bold, patriotic colors, original pictorial and text arrangements, illustrative data and decorative titles were attractive and novel methods used by publishers to boost sales. This particular survey features a detailed close-up of Maryland and Virginia, a smaller map of the continental United States (delineating the North from the South with a thick red line) and several insets depicting strategic landmarks including Savannah, Mobile Bay, Galveston Bay, the Mississippi River, Hampton Roads, Norfolk Harbor, Pensacola Bay and Cairo, Illinois. Lloyd’s Military Map is a uniquely stylized historical document produced during one of the most important historical events in American history. .

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