United States Land Acquisitions: Johnson c. 1880 Bottles & Tumblers The North Pole is depicted

The North Pole is depicted as a landmass surrounding a sea from which four rivers radiate and there is a well depicted Northwest Passage

and canals in the city

This unique phone case features a beautiful antique print of a pair of owlets by the renowned British ornithologist John Gould

government and one of the foremost scientific institutions in the country leading up to the Civil War

Henricus Hondius (1597-1651) was a Dutch cartographer

United States Land Acquisitions: Johnson c. 1880 Bottles & Tumblers The North Pole is depictedAlvin Jewett Johnson was born in Wallingford, Vermont in 1827. He received only a basic public education, but he went on to become a school teacher for several years before moving to Richmond, Virginia and then ultimately to New York City in 1857. In New York, Johnson worked as a book canvasser for the map publisher J. H. Colton and eventually went on to become a successful map publisher himself.