Great Smoky Mountains Map 1912 — Framed USGS Mount Guyot Print

Which finish

The same print, five ways

Prices are for the size you have chosen above — change the size and these change with it. Tap one to choose it.

Framed and canvas arrive ready to hang. Paper arrives as the print alone — if you are framing it yourself, measure the print size, not the framed size quoted in the picker. Every finish is the same restored file at the same resolution: the finish changes what the print is mounted on, never the image.

The story of this map

This is the Great Smoky Mountains before the national park, before the parkway, and before the Appalachian Trail reached them. The Survey engraved the Mt Guyot sheet at 1:125,000 from a reconnaissance survey of the 1880s and revised it in the years around 1910; the edition reproduced here is dated January 1912.

It is drawn almost entirely in brown. There is no forest tint and very little black, so the whole sheet reads as terrain: the state line runs along the crest through Mount Guyot, Mount Sterling and Mount Kephart, and the contours fall away on both sides in the dense, feathered pattern that only steep country produces. Mount Le Conte sits on the left with Bull Head and Balsam Point stacked beside it.

The place names are worth reading closely. Smokemont, Cataloochee, Big Bald, Nibbs Knob, Cold Spring Knob — mapped when they were settlements and pastures rather than trailheads.

We print it as a restored reproduction in our Framed Topographic Maps collection. The sepia tone makes it the quietest print in the set and the easiest to hang next to almost anything.

Before and after

Left: the archive scan exactly as published. Right: the file that goes to the printer.

Mount Guyot and the Great Smoky Mountains Topographic Map, 1912: archive scan compared with the restored print

Archive scanRestored

Restoration notes

Scanner margins squared up, colour cast and levels balanced while keeping the warm tone of the paper, dust and specks removed, gentle sharpening. No contour, name or symbol is redrawn, and nothing is added that the surveyors did not print.

About this particular sheet. These sheets are scans of the Survey's own file copies. Small archive stamps, pencilled accession numbers and, on older sheets, the creases of having been folded, sit in the paper margins outside the map itself. They are part of the sheet's history and we print them as they are rather than paint them out. On this sheet there are two filing punch holes in the left margin, and a faint show-through of the printing on the reverse along the top.

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.

Questions

Is this an original antique map?

No. It is a new archival print made from a restored high-resolution scan of the 1912 sheet held in the US Geological Survey's Historical Topographic Map Collection. We never sell originals.

Is the Appalachian Trail marked on this map?

No. This sheet predates the trail in this section, so there is no trail line to show. It is sold for the country it maps, which is the country the trail crosses.

What ground does the sheet cover?

The Mt Guyot, Tennessee – North Carolina quadrangle at 1:125,000. Named on it: Mount Guyot, Mount Le Conte, Newfound Gap, Charlies Bunion, Mount Kephart.

How large can I print it?

Up to 24 × 36 inches. Every size we offer is checked against the restored file itself, so the largest size listed is one this scan genuinely supports at 200 dpi or better — we do not upscale.

Does it come framed?

Yes, if you choose a framed option. Prints are made to order on archival matte paper and framed in black, white or oak in or near the country of delivery; unframed paper and canvas are also available.

Colours vary between screens and paper. The tone you see here is a close match to the archival matte print; framed prints have no glass glare in these previews.

Complete the wall

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Priced at whatever size and finish you have chosen above, so the pair total is the real one. Change the size and these change with it.

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From people who bought it

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Size	Metric	Best for
12×16 in	30×41 cm	Desk, shelf, small wall, gallery groupings
12×18 in	30×46 cm	Desk, shelf, small wall, gallery groupings
16×20 in	41×51 cm	Above a desk or console, hallway, bedroom
16×24 in	41×61 cm	Above a desk or console, hallway, bedroom
20×20 in	51×51 cm	Over a sofa or bed, statement wall, office
18×24 in	46×61 cm	Above a desk or console, hallway, bedroom
24×24 in	61×61 cm	Over a sofa or bed, statement wall, office
20×30 in	51×76 cm	Over a sofa or bed, statement wall, office
24×30 in	61×76 cm	Over a sofa or bed, statement wall, office
24×32 in	61×81 cm	Over a sofa or bed, statement wall, office
24×36 in	61×91 cm	Over a sofa or bed, statement wall, office

Mount Guyot and the Great Smoky Mountains Topographic Map, 1912

The same print, five ways

Before and after

Restoration notes

Add a second print and take 10% off the cheaper framed one