This pictorial map of the county was created by Jesse Harrison Mason and copyrighted by R.P. Pue & Co. Realtors. It was "produced as a contribution to the development of Howard County," and is richly illustrated with leisure activities and towns, including the National Capital to the south and Baltimore to the north. At the time the realtors published this map, Howard County had a rural population of only 17,000. Rapid growth of the county began with purchase of a large tract of land and development of the new town of Columbia by the Rouse Co. in the 1960s. The county’s current population is about 328,000. The creator, Jesse Mason, was an advertising illustrator and aviation cartoonist. No past sales records and the only institutional examples located were in the Special Collections of the Maryland State Archives and the Peabody Collection at John Hopkins University.

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Condition: B+

On thin paper with even light toning. There are a couple of small edge tears closed with archival tape on verso and two light dampstains confined to the margins.