File:Johnson Map of Illinois-1862.jpg

Description: "This is A. J. Johnson’s 1862 map of Illinois. Covers the entire state as well as portions of the adjacents states of Iowa, Missouri and Indiana. Offers color coding according to county and notations for railways, roadways, cities, towns, and river systems. An inset in the lower left corner details the Chicago courthouse. Features the strapwork style border common to Johnson’s atlas work from 1860 to 1863. Published by A. J. Johnson and Ward as plate number 51 in the 1862 edition of Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas . This is the first edition of the Family Atlas to bear the Johnson and Ward imprint." Date: 1862 (undated) Source: Johnson, A. J., Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical. (1862 A. J. Johnson Ward edition) This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a cooperation project. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1862_Johnson_Map_of_Illinois_-_Geographicus_-_IL-johnson-1862.jpgAuthor: Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884) Permission: WikiMedia Commons License: This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.