Historic Map : Johnson Map of Central America, 1863, Vintage Wall Art

A beautiful 1863 example of Johnson and Ward's map of the Central America. It covers from the Yucatan southeast as far as Panama and north as far as Jamaica. Like most of Johnson's North America maps, this map is largely derived from an earlier wall map of North America produced by Colton and D. Griffing Johnson. Features several insets, including the Isthmus of Panama, the Harbor of San Juan de Nicaragua, the Nicaragua Route, Aspinwall City, and the City of Panama. Throughout the map, Johnson identifies various cities, towns, forts, rivers, rapids, fords, and an assortment of additional offshore and topographical details. Map is hand colored in pink, green, yellow and blue pastels to define national and regional boundaries. This map features the strapwork style border common to Johnson's atlas work from 1860 to 1863. Published by Johnson and Ward as plate no. 65 in the scarce 1863 edition of Johnson's Family Atlas.