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![Geo[rge] H. Walker & Co., LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, NEW HAMPSHIRE. Boston, 1903.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/BRM4265-Walker-WInnipesaukee-1903_lowres-scaled-e1664659793126-150x150.jpg)
An attractive chromolithographic edition of this 1903 bird’s-eye view of Lake Winnipesaukee by prolific Boston publisher George H. Walker. By 1903 the Lakes and White Mountain regions of New Hampshire had become major tourist destinations, with a well-developed network of rail and steamer routes carrying visitors from Boston, New York and elsewhere, and grand hotels […]
![Compiled and drawn from surveys by E[dgar] M[Maurice] Woodford, MAP OF BELKNAP COUNTY NEW HAMPSHIRE. Philadelphia: Smith & Peavey, 1859.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/BRM3481-Belknap-Co-NH-1859_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A monumental and richly informative wall map of Belknap County, New Hampshire, including terrific detail for Lake Winnipesaukee and the surrounding area. By Edgar Maurice Woodford, one of the preeminent American makers of large-scale city and county maps in the 1850s. Published in 1859, this was for its time by far the largest and most […]
A wonderful and very rare pictorial map of the White Mountains. The map depicts the region from Lake Winnipesaukee in the south to Berlin in the north, and from eastern Vermont all the way over to Conway. At the center, superimposed on and yet somehow integrated with the base map, is an image of the […]
A scarce view of this town at the southern end of Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, taken looking northward from an imaginary viewpoint above the far bank of the Merrymeeting River. The town is shown in loving detail, and legend below the view identifies sixteen numbered locations. Two insets depict the head of Alton Bay and […]
A wonderful and scarce pictorial map by the renowned White Mountains cartographer, adventurer and poet Franklin Leavitt. By the mid-19th century the transmission of the Romantic ethos across the Atlantic, the rise of a middle class with disposable income, and the development of rail links with coastal cities transformed the White Mountains into a major […]
A rare, informative and appealing Presdee & Edwards wall map of Meredith Bridge and Lake Village—now known as Laconia—along the south shore of Lake Winnipesaukee in Belknap County, New Hampshire. As with all Presdee & Edwards maps, the very large scale is sufficient to provide immense detail, including not only the street plan and the […]
![Victor [and Franklin] Leavitt / [engraved by A. C. Russell, Boston], LEAVITT’S MAP WITH VIEWS OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS NEW HAMPSHIRE. Lancaster, NH, [1882]/1888.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/BRM4141-Leavitts-White-Mountains-1888_lowres-scaled-e1650208285484-150x150.jpg)
A scarce and wonderful 1888 pictorial promotional map of the White Mountains by Franklin Leavitt, being the final map produced by him over three decades. By the mid-19th century the transmission of the Romantic ethos across the Atlantic, the rise of a middle class with disposable income, and the development of rapid rail links with […]
A wonderful and very rare pictorial map of the White Mountains. The map depicts the region from Lake Winnipesaukee in the south to Berlin in the north, and from eastern Vermont all the way over to Conway. At the center, superimposed on and yet somehow integrated with the base map, is an image of the […]
A very fine example of this well-known view of Lake Winnipesaukee. By 1903 the Lakes and White Mountain regions of New Hampshire had become major tourist destinations, with a well-developed network of rail links and hotels. Accompanying this development was a rich literature and visual iconography revealed in maps, views and other prints. The present […]