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Michigan Territory on the Eve of Statehood, 1836
This hand-colored map of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and the Michigan Territory shows territories admitted to the Union as the seventeenth, nineteenth, and twenty-first states, and Michigan, which became the twenty-sixth state in 1837. Upon becoming the twenty-sixth state, Michigan maintained the tenuous balance between the free and the slave holder states. The map is one of more than 250 maps in the Library's Millard Fillmore Collection, which range in date from 1741 to 1842. Fillmore started to collect maps as early as 1805, and continued collecting for nearly twenty-five years. The Library acquired the Fillmore Map Collection in 1916. |