The Maryland State Archives Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608-1908

by Edward C. Papenfuse and Joseph M. Coale III

Maryland presents cartographers with a formidable test of their skills: unusual natural boundaries, border disputes, and in 1790 the gift of sixty-seven square miles for the creation of the District of Columbia have given the state a distinctively irregular configuration. Since the early seventeenth century, generations of mapmakers have met this challenge with artistic imagination and a variety of cartographical techniques.

In The Maryland...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801872359
• ISBN13: 9780801872358
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 5.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 12.8" x 14.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher