Ellie Ackers' c. 1840s Map of Southeast Pennsylvania vintage hand-painted sign clearly an old one

clearly an old one

a good box in general)

I especially love the use of found color

which to my eye lends her a bit of mystery and perhaps even scandalousness

present and future

Ellie Ackers' c. 1840s Map of Southeast Pennsylvania vintage hand-painted sign clearly an old oneOne of two more maps today by Ellie Ackers, by whom I had one other, of the southern states, sold last week. C. 1840s, this one which took me a few minutes to figure out depicts southeast Pennsylvania, with each colored shape I believe representing a township or county, with Montgomery county noted to northeast, Delaware county to the Southeast (just east of Philadelphia) and Teddyfrin township to the south and so I believe that would mean it is Berks