1874 Map of Western United States – Detailed Atlas by Keith Johnston

Name: 1874 Map of Western United States – Detailed Atlas by Keith Johnston
Brand: W. & A. K. Johnston
SKU: BG-13601-1-1
Price: 615 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1874
Maker: W. & A. K. Johnston
Kind: Maps
Size: 49.2 × 62 cm (19.4 × 24.4 in)
Condition: Good. Very good condition. Strong clean impression with original color. Light overall age toning and faint foxing mainly in margins. Original atlas fold line flattened for presentation. No tears or repairs noted. Fully suitable for framing.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Mexico
Reference: BG-13601-1-1

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

The western United States in 1874, "United States of North America (Western Sheet)" by Keith Johnston, an original steel-engraved map with outline color, published in Edinburgh by William Blackwood & Sons as a sheet in Keith Johnston's General Atlas. The atlas title is printed along the top margin.

The map runs from the Pacific coast to the Mississippi and the western shore of Lake Michigan, and from Dakota in the north to Texas and the Gulf. State and territorial boundaries are outlined in color: Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas appear, and the large block lettered "Indian Territory" shows the region that became Oklahoma. Rivers, lakes and mountain ranges are drawn in hachures, with railroads crossing the plains and Tulare Lake in the California valley still shown as a body of water. Towns, forts and settlements are lettered throughout.

The date is a few years after the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 and before most of the western territories were admitted as states.

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