- Title: United States Land Acquisitions
- Author: A. J. Johnson
- Date: c. 1880
- Medium: Wax engraving
- Condition: Very Good +
- Inches: 11.5 x 14.5 [Paper]
- Centimeters: 29.2 x 36.6 [Paper]
- Product ID: 101138
Alvin Jewett Johnson was born in Wallingford, Vermont in 1827. He received only a basic public education, but he went on to become a school teacher for several years before moving to Richmond, Virginia and then ultimately to New York City in 1857. In New York, Johnson worked as a book canvasser for the map publisher J.H. Colton and eventually went on to become a successful map publisher himself.