A New Map of Maryland and Delaware

Brightly colored transportation map of Delaware and Maryland from the mid-19th century.

This detailed map of Maryland and Delaware highlights transportation innovations resulting from the Industrial Revolution. Railroads and canals, two primary thoroughfares for goods and people, are highlighted in orange and blue, respectively.

Stage roads are also shown, with distances between various points noted in many instances. A table at the top of the sheet lists three steamboat route itineraries from Baltimore to Norfolk, Philadelphia, and Washington.

An inset plan of the capital city is shown in the lower left, with churches and twenty-one buildings of interest located therein. The map was published in Philadelphia by Samuel Augustus Mitchell in 1847.