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1833 S.D.U.K. Map of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina
GeorgiaTennessee-sduk-1833$62.50
Title
North America Sheet XII. Georgia, with Parts of North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Florida.
1833 (dated) 16 x 13.5 in (40.64 x 34.29 cm) 1 : 1770000
1833 (dated) 16 x 13.5 in (40.64 x 34.29 cm) 1 : 1770000
Description
This is an uncommon 1833 map of Tennessee, Georgia and parts of Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina issued by the S.D.U.K. It covers the states of Tennessee and Georgia in their entirety while only part of the neighboring Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina are depicted. The map identifies the Indian tribes of the Cherokees and the Creeks.
This map is particularly interesting and important due to its portrayal of the rapidly changing American Indian situation in Georgia and Alabama. A substantial part of northeastern Alabama, southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia was a confined territory assigned to the Upper Creek, Lower Creek and Cherokee nations. Just two years before this map was made the Creek and Cherokee were forcibly relocated westward in the infamous 'Trail of Tears.'
> Published in 1833 by Baldwin and Cradock of Paternoster Row for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, or S.D.U.K. Although the Society formally closed its doors in 1848, subsequent reissues of the S.D.U.K. atlas were printed well into the 1870s by Chapman and Hall, who acquired the original plates.
This map is particularly interesting and important due to its portrayal of the rapidly changing American Indian situation in Georgia and Alabama. A substantial part of northeastern Alabama, southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia was a confined territory assigned to the Upper Creek, Lower Creek and Cherokee nations. Just two years before this map was made the Creek and Cherokee were forcibly relocated westward in the infamous 'Trail of Tears.'
> Published in 1833 by Baldwin and Cradock of Paternoster Row for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, or S.D.U.K. Although the Society formally closed its doors in 1848, subsequent reissues of the S.D.U.K. atlas were printed well into the 1870s by Chapman and Hall, who acquired the original plates.
Cartographer
The "Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" (1826 - 1848) was a Whiggish organization founded in 1828 at the instigation of idealistic British lord Henry Peter Brougham. The admirable goal of the Society was to distribute useful information via a series of publications to the English working and middle classes. It promoted self-education and the egalitarian sharing of all knowledge. While closely tied to the London University and publishing houses on the order of Baldwin and Cradock, Chapman and Hall, and Charles Knight, the Society failed to achieve its many lofty goals in finally closed its doors in 1848. Most likely the failure of the Society resulted from its publications being too expensive for its intended lower to middle class markets and yet not large and fine enough to appeal to the aristocratic market. Nonetheless, it did manage to publish several extraordinary atlases of impressive detail and sophistication. Their most prominent atlas consisted of some 200 separately issued maps initially published by Baldwin and Cradock and sold by subscription from 1829 to 1844. Afterwards, the Society combined the maps into a single world atlas published under the Chapman and Hall imprint. In its day, this atlas was unprecedented in its quality, scope, and cost effectiveness. Today Society, or S.D.U.K. as it is commonly known, maps are among the most impressive examples of mid-19th century English mass market cartographic publishing available. The S.D.U.K. is especially known for its beautiful and accurately detailed city plans. More by this mapmaker...
Source
Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, (London: Baldwin & Cradock), 1833.
Condition
Very good. Blank on verso. Minor wear along original fold lines. Minor verso repair near fold in bottom left margin. Bottom left margin includes original slit made during printing.
References
Rumsey 0890.139. Phillips (Atlases) 794.