Map of the Town of Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts.

1852 Walling Map of Andover, Massachusetts

Erscheinungsdatum: 1852

Beschreibung

Very good. Full professional restoration. Accompanied by original rollers which add four inches to the height and five inches to the width. Size 39 x 43 Inches. This is a scarce 1852 Henry F. Walling wall map of the towns of Andover and North Andover, Massachusetts. Like most Walling town maps, the cartographer has taken great pains to identify the homes of individual families and landowners, as well as important roads, rail lines, municipal buildings, and businesses. Walling sold his maps by subscription, often going door to door, so the presence of individual property owners was doubtless intended as an enticement to buyers. Both Phillips Andover Academy and the Andover Theological Seminary are identified in the inset in the lower left. Phillips Andover Academy Phillips Academy was founded in 1778, during the American Revolutionary War, by Samuel Phillips, marking it as the oldest incorporated secondary school in the United States. For a time, the school shared its campus with the Andover Theological Seminary (founded in 1807), pictured below. In 1973, Phillips Andover merged with the Abbott Female Seminary to become a co-educational academy. Today, Phillips Andover remains a prestigious secondary school with a roll of distinguished alumni that include both George Bush presidents, Frederick Law Olmsted, Humphrey Bogart, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, among many others. The current location of Phillips Academy is identified here as such just south of 'Andover Theological Seminary' in the village map inset. Andover Theological Seminary Established in 1807, Andover Theological is the first and thus the oldest theological seminary founded in the United States. When it was founded, it shared a campus with Phillips Andover (founded 1778) but later separated. The Congregationalist seminary emerged out of the Unitarian Controversy, a split between liberal and orthodox Calvinists at Harvard. Harvard embraced the more liberal point of view, leading to the founding of Andover for 'Old Calvinists'. The seminary merged with Newton Theological in 1965 and operates today as the Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. Publication History and Census This map was created and published by Henry F. Walling in 1852 and lithographed by Augustus Kollner. We note seven examples cataloged in OCLC which are part of the collections at the New York Public Library, Harvard University, the Boston Athenaeum, the State Library of Massachusetts, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine, and the University of Virginia. There is no record of how many examples of this map were produced, but today it is quite rare. References: OCLC 40836458.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Andover-walling-1852-2

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Map of the Town of Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1852
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • MASSACHUSETTS-CONNECTICUT-RHODEISLAND