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| Keywords: 1866 Johnson Map of the West Indies and Caribbean - Geographicus - WestIndies-johnson-1866.jpg A beautiful example of A J Johnson ™s 1866 map of the West Indies Covers from Florida to Venezuela and from Honduras to Barbados Includes the Bahamas Cuba Jamaica Santo Domingo Hispaniola Porto Rico and the Lesser Antilles or Windward Isles An inset of Bermuda appears in the upper right quadrant Features some offshore detail with depth soundings in the Pedro Bank off Jamaica off the coast of Nicaragua and in the Bahama Bank Larger islands feature color coding according to district Throughout Johnson identifies various cities towns rivers and assortment of additional topographical details Features the fretwork style border common to Johnson ™s atlas work from 1864 to 1869 Published by A J Johnson and Ward as plate numbers 70 and 71 in the 1866 edition of Johnson ™s New Illustrated Family Atlas 1866 dated 1864 Size in 23 5 17 5 object history credit line accession number s Geographical Statistical and Historic including The Latest Federal Census A Geographical Index and a Chronological History of the Civil War in America</i> 1866 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Alvin Jewett Johnson 1866 maps Old maps of the Caribbean Caribbean in the 1860s | ||||
