Uncommon Map of Massachusetts to Promote the Sale of Abandoned Farms
"Map of Massachusetts"
Color-printed map, circa 1890, printed by Wright & Potter, Boston, showing towns, railroad, railroad stations, post offices, and steamer lines, printed on thin off-white paper; some slight toning lower-left (around 'Hartford'), very faint horizontal and vertical folds (now flattened) and a thin left margin, all as issued, but otherwise in very good condition,
Neatline 18 3/4 x 29 3/4 inches
Sheet 20 1/2 x 30 5/8 inches
$275
This map was published to accompany the "Descriptive Catalogue of Farms in Massachusetts, Abandoned or Partially Abandoned", an interesting 100 page pamphlet giving details of farms being put up for sale. Among the reasons given for the abandonment is "[the] strange fascination in city life which has always existed, and which leads many who are under it's spell to prefer poverty and privation in the city to independence and comfort in the country."
We have been unable to locate any other copies of this map, including on the Digital Commonwealth site as well as in the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center collection.
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