Ellie Acker's c. 1840s Watercolor Map of the Southern United States machine age giving resourceful Emma room to

giving resourceful Emma room to write

VT (founded 1872) and that it once stood on a wheeled platform

once an active docking place for boats

Slides 3" x 1"

which I find wonderfully graphic as she laid them down

Ellie Acker's c. 1840s Watercolor Map of the Southern United States machine age giving resourceful Emma room toYou know I love a hand drawn map, even more so a watercolored one, and I love how the color on this one, depicting "the Southern states" nearly obscures its details, such that, if one didn't know better, it might be read as pure abstraction. Of course the outlines give it away instant recognizability that speaks to it as being a much a symbol icon as map. The inclusion of Arkansas (admitted to the Union on June 15, 1836, as the 25th state) date the