Two plates, as printed
1847 beside 1755
Nothing is redrawn. Each column is what that sheet actually shows. Read both records before deciding they rhyme.
1847
Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Méjico
John Disturnell (after White, Gallaher & White, 1828)
Period original
What this plate depicts
Mexico as Disturnell issued it in 1847, including Texas and Alta California. Upper California is on the sheet as Mexican territory at the moment the war map becomes a treaty map. Later boundary commissions found Disturnell’s El Paso too far north and east of the ground. Record the plate as printed: a New York publisher’s Mexico, attached to a peace, with errors that then had to be surveyed out. Do not silently correct the El Paso error on this image.
- Source
- University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections; the 1847 edition used in Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo copies.
- License
- Public domain.
1755
A New and Accurate Map of North America
John Huske; Thomas Kitchin sculpt.
Period original
What this plate depicts
The title states the job: to correct “the errors of all preceding British, French and Dutch maps respecting the rights of Great Britain, France & Spain, & the limits of each of His Majesty’s provinces.” Coverage runs from Newfoundland toward Florida, with a Hudson Bay inset. Pennsylvania’s drawn limits are part of the argument. This plate is a dispute about European rights, drawn as geography.
- Source
- Library of Congress, from Huske’s The Present State of North America (also issued 1760).
- License
- Public domain.