Rhode Island

Streets, wards and the names of individual landowners fill these maps of Rhode Island, which chart a small state at an unusu...

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Streets, wards and the names of individual landowners fill these maps of Rhode Island, which chart a small state at an unusually local scale. Daniel Glover Beers's nineteenth-century maps cover Providence, Newport and Warwick as well as smaller villages and townships, with folding sheets and paired village maps extending across the state. Earlier regional maps set it beside Connecticut and Long Island Sound, and coastal charts follow Narragansett Bay, Block Island and neighbouring New England waters. The prints show its places and coast, in material from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

Streets, wards and the names of individual landowners fill these maps of Rhode Island, which chart a small state at an unusually local scale. Daniel Glover Beers's nineteenth-century maps cover Providence, Newport and Warwick as well as smaller villages and townships, with folding sheets and paired village maps extending across the state. Earlier regional maps set it beside Connecticut and Long Island Sound, and coastal charts follow Narragansett Bay, Block Island and neighbouring New England waters. The prints show its places and coast, in material from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

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