MAPS

 

Fairmount Park, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: F. Bourquin, Lith., 1869). Lithograph, tinted with two stones.

 

Through the printing establishments of premier map publishers Robert P. Smith (1827-1898) and Frederick Bourquin, Philadelphia continued as a center of map production for the country in the mid-19th century. Bourquin, a past foreman and partner of Duval, was an innovator in the field, especially in transfer lithography. Following a partnership with Smith, he operated his own map publishing firm between about 1863 and his death in 1897. At the time this map – promoted in the Printers’ Circular in July 1869 – was printed, he employed between six and twenty lithographers to keep up with his commissions.

 

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