Lloyd's New Map of the United States, the Canadas, and New Brunswick. From the Latest Surveys showing every Railroad & Station finished to June 1862 and the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts from the United States Superintendents Official Reports of the Coast Survey by order of Congress. LLOYD, James T. MAPS - AMERICAS,North America

Original large colour-printed Civil-War era map (96 x 127 cm) of the United States and Canada, coloured by counties and extending west to include Dakota, an early depiction of Nebraska (predating the creation of Wyoming Territory), Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma), Kansas and Texas. With an inset map of southern Florida. The map laid onto linen and folding between publisher's original purple cloth covers with title-label to upper cover and publisher's advertisements to verso which includes a list of Lloyd's maps, most of which were available varnished, mounted on linen, with rollers. Interestingly the address given on the title-label is of 1, Strand, W.C., London. Some minor splits to a few folds with old tape repairs, some even toning, generally a very good example. J.T. Lloyd (fl. c. 1852-1865) was a New York City based map publisher active in the middle of the 19th century. Lloyd's maps, despite being printed in New York, frequently focussed on the southern states, then in the midst of the American Civil War. Lloyd's maps are as noteworthy for their large size and extensive detail as for their bombastic advertisements and self-promotion. He was also an overt racist who, in modern times, has become notorious for his rants against merchants and hoteliers he encountered in his travels. The following is an example from this map directed (in part) at "negro worshipping abolitionist" hotel owners: A Racist Hotel Review in Civil War America: The traveling public are cautioned against stopping at the Burnett House, Cincinnati, O., as no respect or attention is shown to guests, excepting when their bills are presented. The proprietor spends much of his time in gambling, caring little for the comfort of his guests, or how badly his clerks and servants act Almost daily, ladies are insulted in this house. Drunken men have been known to light their cigars and smoke at the dinner-table, compelling the lady guests to rise and leave the room. One of the clerks, named Wm. W. Johnson, the very personification impudence, forces himself into ladies' rooms uninvited, and often insults them in the grossest manner; and it is high time the PUBLIC should have this matter before them to decide upon. On the 13th of October, this impudent clerk, Johnson, went into a lady guest's room at the Burnett House, uninvited, and threatened to WHIP HER LITTLE SICK BOY, TWO YEARS OF AGE, for making a noise in the halls. Had the lady's husband been present, he would not have dared insult her. The matter was laid before Mr. T. P. Saunders, the Proprietor-but what can be expected from a gambler!-he promised the lady that Mr. Johnson should be discharged the next day; he never kept his word; to avoid meeting the lady, after violating his word, in the presence of witnesses, went off suddenly to St. Louis on a gambling tour; this left the lady no alternative but to leave the house. A few months before this case, Mr. Johnson went into another lady's room to illuminate the windows in honor of a victory of the Union troops; the lady objected, on the ground that her mother-in-law had died the previous day, and she did not wish to be intruded upon in her sorrow; but he by force lit the candles in the windows, which the lady blew out after he left the room; he then returned, and, by holding her hands, lit the candles, threatening her, with an oath, if she dared extinguish the lights. Another lady, who had just arrived at the Burnett House, was insulted by this Johnson stopping at her room, and asking her if she would not like to have a hot whisky punch sent to her-the lady was dumbfounded with astonishment atsuch impudence. The Burnett House is unfortunate in having rascally clerks; for some months, a clerk named James T. Fulton made it a rule to write notes and stick them under the doors of lady guests' rooms, pretending that he had become smitten with their beauty, and signing fictitious names to his notes; if this failed to receive a reply, he would then slander t