Chesapeake Bay 1819

Vintage map print — Chesapeake Bay, 1819. Digital download; you print it.

WHAT YOU GET - five JPEGs at 300 DPI

• 8x10 in (2.5 MB)
• 11x14 in (4.6 MB)
• 16x20 in (10.2 MB)
• 18x24 in (13.3 MB)
• 24x36 in (18.3 MB)

Every one of the five sizes is TRUE 300 DPI from the original scan - nothing is enlarged.

WHAT I ACTUALLY DID TO IT

The library scan arrived with the scanner surround still on it and 170 years of grey in the paper. I trimmed the surround, stretched the tone back to warm paper, and took one pixel of scanner speckle off - not enough to soften a single depth sounding, because the soundings are the part worth looking at. The foxing and the tea-stain are still there. They are the age, and bleaching them out would sell you a different thing.

HONEST ABOUT THE SOURCE

The original scan is a public domain record from the Library of Congress (g3842). You could download it yourself for nothing. What you are paying for is the restoration and the five sized, print-ready files - not access to the map.

HOW TO PRINT IT

Any print shop, any online printer, or at home. Ask for matte or a cotton rag if they offer it. The files are RGB at 300 DPI with the density tagged, so a shop will size them correctly without asking.

NOT INCLUDED

No physical item is shipped. No frame. This is a digital download.