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Framed Nautical Charts
Mobile Bay Nautical Chart, c. 1900
US Coast and Geodetic Survey — Fort Morgan and Dauphin Island to the city, with the dredged channel
From the Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center · 1900
$129Charged in USD at checkout; local currency shown for reference.
Source scan:BPL Leventhal (Digital Commonwealth). Rights statement of the archive: “No known copyright restrictions. No known restrictions on use.” Original map: US Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1900, 1 map ; 63 x 46 cm; Scale approximately 1:123,000. Verified 2026-09-14.
This product is a new archival print made from a restored scan of that map. It is not an original antique and is not sold as one.
The story of this map
Mobile Bay is a thirty-mile funnel of shallow water with one deep channel, and this chart is that channel: the Coast and Geodetic Survey’s sheet of the bay from Fort Morgan and Dauphin Island at the mouth — the forts Farragut ran past in 1864, damning the torpedoes — north past the dredged cut of 1888 to the wharves of Mobile. Depths are in soundings and gradient tints, and the survey’s tables of tides and lights sit in the margin.
The Leventhal Map Center’s copy was printed as a plate in a Navy Department report of about 1900 on where to put a new Gulf navy yard, and the sites the commission considered are marked on it, which gives the sheet a little of the bureaucracy of its time along with the water.
The scan is smaller than most in the collection, so the chart is offered only at the sizes it carries at 200 dpi or better: 12×16, 16×20 and 18×24 in. Restored with the paper tone kept; pairs with the Galveston and Pensacola sheets for a Gulf wall.
Before and after
Left: the archive scan exactly as published. Right: the file that goes to the printer.
Restoration notes
Restoration: trimmed the scanner margins, balanced levels while keeping the paper tone (65% of the original colour retained), removed dust and specks, applied gentle sharpening. Stamps, tipped-on notices and the wear of a used chart are kept where they belong to the object; nothing is redrawn.
Every print carries its archive credit on the packing slip. Paper tone and small imperfections of the original are kept on purpose; nothing is redrawn.
Pairs well with
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Informational purposes only, no warranties, not professional advice. All products are new archival prints made from restored scans of historical maps held by public archives; they are not original antiques. Colours vary by screen and by paper.
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