D. Jackson Lake was a prolific Philadelphia cartographer and publisher of Midwestern county atlases in the latter half of the nineteenth century. After publishing maps of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, between 1862 and 1870, he began specializing in county atlases. During the following six years Lake issued almost 40 atlases for counties in Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Ohio, including the 1874 Cuyahoga County, Ohio, atlas. Lake's atlases of this period were lithographed and printed by C.O. Titus, or the firm of Titus, Simmons & Titus, and typically contained few illustrations. Their heavily-illustrated Atlas of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (1874) was a conspicuous exception.

After 1875, he formed a partnership with Bruce N. Griffin to publish atlases and later added another partner and formed the firm Lake, Griffin and Stevenson. In 1879 the firm reorganized as D. J. Lake & Co. and expanded its scope of operations farther west into Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. During this period the firm used Worley & Bracher to do the lithography and Frederick Bourquin as the printer, both Philadelphia companies. In addition, Lake adopted their rivals' practice of illustrating their atlases with detailed drawings of notable public and private buildings in the areas covered by the atlases.

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