Hand-drawn Map of the North Branch Mines, Garrett County Maryland, c. 1870 picnic basket and possibly made by Holgate

and possibly made by Holgate

12 1/2" across when flat

I found these wonderful old hand-painted letters in the stables of a huge old horse farm in Marlborough MA

or carved wooden animal

creating his own cloth binding

Hand-drawn Map of the North Branch Mines, Garrett County Maryland, c. 1870 picnic basket and possibly made by HolgateI love a hand drawn map, and find this one both exquisitely beautiful in the way it is rendered and quite poetic in its perfect matter of factness. Drawn in black ink (now kind of sepia toned) on an almost vellum like paper (used by architects in the 19th c.), the map depicts the North Branch coal mine in Garrett County, Maryland, which a little research reveals began operations in 1864, supplied the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and was the subject of