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Mapmaker Jane Crosen with Her New 'Coastwise' Edition of Colby's 1881 Washington County Atlas
Sun, Apr 27
|Eastport Arts Center
Sunday Afternoons at the Arts Center, an Eastport winter tradition, features diverse, interactive and casual weekly presentations.
Time & Location
Apr 27, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington St, Eastport, ME 04631, USA
About the event
Eastport Arts Center’s annual winter Sunday series concludes on April 27 at 3 pm, when editor, mapmaker, and author Jane Crosen will give a slide presentation on her newly arranged Coastwise edition of Colby’s 1881 Atlas of Washington County.
The original edition of the Atlas was compiled, drawn, and published by George N. Colby in 1881 in Houlton and Machias, Maine. A collection of maps based on charts and surveys, the Atlas was engraved and printed in Philadelphia; only 300 hand-colored copies were printed, now collectors’ items. As a small publisher and map researcher, Crosen wanted to keep Colby’s historic maps in print in a more user-friendly format, grouping related maps—towns, villages, timber lot plans—in geographic order, “as schooners would sail coastwise downeast with the prevailing winds.” Her newly arranged layout includes 40 period photos capturing Washington County’s landscape and towns as they existed during the age of sail.
Jane…