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| Keywords: 1866 Johnson Map of Prussia, Germany - Geographicus - Prussia-johnson-1866.jpg This is Johnson and Ward ™s 1866 map of Prussia Germany Prussia attained its greatest importance in the 18th and 19th centuries when it dominated northern Germany politically economically and in population During the 19th century Chancellor Otto von Bismarck pursued a policy of uniting the German principalities into a Lesser Germany which would exclude the Austrian Empire Bismarck ™s North German Confederation formed in 1867 one year after this map was issued Subsequent Johnson atlases removed the specific Prussia map in favor of larger map incorporating then entire German Confederation Surrounded by the fretwork style border common to Johnson ™s atlas maps issued between 1863 and 1869 Steel plate engraving prepared by A J Johnson for publication as platesno 87 in the 1866 edition of his New Illustrated Atlas ¦ This is the last edition of the Johnson ™s Atlas to bear the Johnson and Ward imprint 1866 dated 1865 Size in 16 11 5 object history credit line accession number s Geographical Statistical and Historic including The Latest Federal Census A Geographical Index and a Chronological History of the Civil War in America</i> last Johnson and Ward 1866 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Alvin Jewett Johnson 1866 maps Old maps of Prussia | ||||
