Ellie Acker's c. 1840s Watercolor Map of the Southern United States machine age Slides 3" x 1"

Slides 3" x 1"

and layers of color surrounding him to make it seem as if he's enveloped by a throne

once an active docking place for boats

VT (founded 1872) and that it once stood on a wheeled platform

On the interior of one is hand-written "8"

Ellie Acker's c. 1840s Watercolor Map of the Southern United States machine age Slides 3" x 1"You know I love a hand drawn map, even more so a watercolored one, and I love how the color on this one, depicting "the Southern states" nearly obscures its details, such that, if one didn't know better, it might be read as pure abstraction. Of course the outlines give it away instant recognizability that speaks to it as being a much a symbol icon as map. The inclusion of Arkansas (admitted to the Union on June 15, 1836, as the 25th state) date the