Georgia

Historical maps, prints, and photographic views of Georgia.

Archival Category: State Cartography | Era: 19th Century | Geography: North America | Holdings: 8 items.

Cataloged Works in this Collection

North America. Sheet XII. Georgia with parts of North & South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama & Florida.
Cartographer / Artist: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK)
Date: c. 1833
Medium: Steel plate engraving with hand-colored outline
Dimensions: 13.5 x 16.25 inches
Location: Georgia, United States
A finely engraved 19th-century map of Georgia and neighboring Southeastern states, illustrating early county formations, Cherokee territories, topographical features, and postal routes.
NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, and GEORGIA.
Cartographer / Artist: Thomas Gamaliel Bradford / Engraved by G. W. Boynton
Date: 1838
Medium: Engraving with original hand color
Dimensions: 10 x 13 inches (25.4 x 33 cm)
Location: Southeastern United States (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia)
An attractive 1838 map of the American Southeast published in Bradford's *Illustrated Atlas*, delineating county boundaries, early railroads, canals, and physical geography across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Rice Culture on the Ogeechee, Near Savannah, Georgia
Cartographer / Artist: Alfred Rudolph Waud (A. R. Waud) / Harper's Weekly
Date: 1867
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: 11 x 16 inches
Location: Ogeechee River, Savannah, Georgia, United States
Created by famed Civil War artist Alfred R. Waud for the January 5, 1867 issue of *Harper's Weekly*, this detailed composite wood engraving illustrates the intricate steps and infrastructure of coastal rice cultivation along Georgia's Ogeechee River, featuring vignettes of ditching, reaping, flood gates, and threshing mills.
Savannah's Sesquicentennial Celebration
Cartographer / Artist: Horace Bradley
Date: 1883
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: 11 x 16 inches
Location: Savannah, Georgia, USA
This 1883 Harper's Weekly wood engraving features sketches by Horace Bradley depicting key events from Savannah's 150th anniversary, including Oglethorpe's landing, Governor Stephens' speech, and a military parade along Bay Street.
View of Tallulah Falls—Ladore Cascade—Georgia [with Portrait of Miss Agnes Robertson]
Cartographer / Artist: S. Edmon (artist), Milburn (engraver), Frederick Gleason (publisher)
Date: c. 1852–1853
Medium: Wood engraving with letterpress
Dimensions: 11 x 15 inches
Location: Tallulah Falls, Georgia, United States
A complete illustrated page from *Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion* featuring a fine wood engraving of the Ladore Cascade at Tallulah Falls, Georgia, accompanied by a portrait of Scottish actress Agnes Robertson and contemporary descriptive text.
Johnson's Georgia and Alabama
Cartographer / Artist: A.J. Johnson
Date: 1863
Medium: Lithograph with original hand coloring
Dimensions: 18.0 x 26.5 inches
Location: Georgia and Alabama, United States
A finely detailed Civil War-era map of Georgia and Alabama published in *Johnson's Family Atlas*, displaying county divisions in distinct pastel hand coloring along with early railroad networks, coastal soundings, and major towns.
Preliminary Chart of Savannah River, Georgia (Horizontal View)
Cartographer / Artist: U.S. Coast Survey (A.D. Bache, Supr.; C.O. Boutelle; J.N. Maffitt)
Date: 1855
Medium: Map
Dimensions: 📐 35.3 × 22.3 in / 89.7 × 56.6 cm
Location: Savannah, Georgia, United States
A horizontal presentation of the 1855 Savannah River survey sheet, highlighting the intricate sandbars, channels, islands, and sounding indicators essential for navigation.
Preliminary Chart of St. Simon's Sound and Brunswick Harbor, Georgia
Cartographer / Artist: U.S. Coast Survey (A.D. Bache, Supr.; A.M. Longfellow; Lieut. S.D. Trenchard)
Date: 1857
Medium: Map
Dimensions: 📐 32.5 × 19.0 in / 82.5 × 48.3 cm
Location: Brunswick, Georgia, United States
A sweeping, large-scale maritime survey mapping soundings, sailing directions, and coastal topography around St.