G. W. & C. B. Colton was a prominent family firm of mapmakers who were leaders in the American map trade in the nineteenth century. The business was founded by Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800-1893) who bought copyrights to existing maps and oversaw their production. By the 1850s, their output had expanded to include original maps, guidebooks, atlases, and railroad maps. Joseph was succeeded by his sons, George Woolworth (1827-1901) and Charles B. Colton (1831-1916). The firm was renamed G. W. & C. B. Colton as a result. George is thought responsible for their best-known work, the General Atlas, originally published under that title in 1857. In 1898, the brothers merged their business and the firm became Colton, Ohman, & Co., which operated until 1901, when August R. Ohman took on the business alone and dropped the Colton name.
Rare separately issued map of California, published in New York City by Colton. Includes excellent detail throughout the map, including counties, roads, rivers, lakes, mountains, railroads, stations, gold mines, dry lakes, extinct volcano craters,...
An attractive antique map of western Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans with various insets. The map is highly detailed, showing many settlements, islands, railroads, and more. The map is colored in attractive pastels. The geopolitical boundaries at the...
