STATE AND TERRITORY MAPS
#59 - FLORIDA

Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1889
Lithographer: Donaldson Bros.

Area: 58,680 sq. mi.
Population: 269,493
Scenes: Oranges, Winter Resorts

PRINTING ERROR

Shown above is a detail image from the back of an interesting variety found on a few of these Florida cards and originally identified by Jerry Anderson. It was first printed incorrectly, bearing "No 52", which should be for Maine. It appears that this error was discovered before the cards were distributed, and that a sufficient number of these were wrong to make it worthwhile for the lithographer to create an overprint to correct the error. Two solid bars were printed over the original "No 52", and the correct "59" was printed to the right of it. This type of overprint correction has also been found on the Maine (#52), Pennsylvania (#54), Maryland (#56) and West Virginia (#57) cards in this series. I'd be very interested in hearing from other collectors who've run across similar misprints on this and any other Arbuckle cards.

Although the cards in this series didn't include any additional descriptive information for the individual states or territories, the subsequently issued
Illustrated Atlas of the United States of America
did devote several paragraphs to
Florida