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Digital Image: 1845 Morse and Breese Maps of Florida and New York
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Title
Florida. / New York and Vicinity.
1845 (dated) 16 x 13 in (40.64 x 33.02 cm) 1 : 2000000
1845 (dated) 16 x 13 in (40.64 x 33.02 cm) 1 : 2000000
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Cartographer S
Sidney Edwards Morse (February 7, 1794 - December 24, 1871) was an American geographer, journalist, and inventor. Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Morse was the son of the geographer and clergyman Jedidiah Morse (August 23, 1761 - June 9, 1826) and his wife Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese. Morse graduated from Yale in 1811, and also studied theology at Andover Seminary, as well as law at the school in Litchfield, Connecticut. Morse moved to New York City in 1823, where he founded the New York Observer with his brother Richard Cary Morse (1795 - 1868). Together with Henry A. Munson he developed cerography, a printmaking technique using a layer of wax over a metal substrate. Morse used this technique to illustrate his geographical textbooks, including the The Cerographic Atlas of the United States, which he co-published with Samuel Breese. Morse devoted his last few years to experimenting with an invention, called a bathyometer, created to aid in the rapid exploration of the ocean. His invention was exhibited in Paris during the 1869 World's Fair and the following year in New York City. More by this mapmaker...
Samuel Breese (September 27, 1802 - October 14, 1873) was an American cartographer who co-published The Cerographic Atlas of the United States with Sidney Edwards Morse. Learn More...
Source
The Cerographic Atlas Of The United States, (New York: Sidney E. Morse) 1845.
Morse and Breese's Cerographic Atlas of the United States, also known as Morse's North American Atlas was a landmark in American Cartography, being the first atlas to employ the cerographic (wax process) printing. Cerography was a wax process invented in the late 1830s by Sidney E. Morse, the son of Jedediah Morse (1761 - 1826), who immediately recognized its value for map publication. The maps were first printed in a series of inserts in the New York Post, then later as sets in three fascicles, then in two atlas issues in 1845.
References
Rumsey, 4180.014, 4180.013.