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Old Map of North America Industries & Communications circa 1900

THIS IS A REBUBLISHED MAP LAID ONTO CLOTH

Ref: Industry010, 1900, George Phillip & Son

Old map of North America Industries and Communications circa 1900. Steam ship routes, including distance between ports in nautical miles and time taken to travel, are clearly labelled. For example San Franscisco to Panama is 3211 nautical miles, and San Fransico to Acapulco took 7 days by steamship in 1900.

Washington D.C is the capital city of the United States of America. The Potomac River is 405 miles in length, and flows through Washington D.C. The Anacostia River empties in to the Potomac River at Buzzard Point. At the time this map was published peaches were a major produce of this area.

Mexico is one of the largest coffee producing countries in the world. Coffee did not arrive in Mexico until coffee plants were brought there by the Spanish in the late 18th century. The plants were originally exported from Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

The mahogany tree is native to the Caribbean and Central America, and Nicaragua is known for it's mahogany.

Jamaica is an island in the Caribbean sea. The majority of the world's rum production occurs in the Caribbean and Latin America. Rum is produced from molasses, which is made from sugar cane.

Additional produces across North America include salmon in Canada, cocoa in the Dominican Republic, pearls in the Gulf of Panama, and bananas in Honduras.

George Phillip (1800 - 1882) was a cartographer and map publisher during the nineteenth century. Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, he founded his business in Liverpool, producing maps and educational books. His son, George II, joined the business in 1848 and they moved to London in 1856, trading under the name George Phillip & Son.

Originally producing maps from copper plates which were hand coloured (usually by women), they progressed to producing machine coloured maps on a power-driven lithographic press by the latter half of the nineteenth century. They published maps from various cartographers including J.Bartholomew.

When this map was published:

North America, Jamaica, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Panama, North America map

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