1876 Antique Map of New York State with Niagara and Hudson River Insets

Name: 1876 Antique Map of New York State with Niagara and Hudson River Insets
Brand: S. Augustus Mitchell
SKU: BG-13952-1
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1876
Maker: S. Augustus Mitchell
Kind: Maps
Size: 43.5 × 68 cm (17.1 × 26.8 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition, considering age, with some yellowing that is typical of maps from this period. Some soiling and small tears along the edges, due to handling. Study the images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: New York
Reference: BG-13952-1

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

New York State at the scale of a full atlas spread, an original lithographed map dated 1876 and attributed to Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr., with outline and wash color by county. The word "New York" is set in large letters at the lower left, and the sheet carries the printed page number of the atlas it was taken from.

The state is shown from Lake Erie and Lake Ontario in the west to the Hudson and Long Island in the southeast, with each county tinted in pink, yellow, green or blue and the state boundary marked in a heavier red line. Railroads are drawn across the whole of the state, and the Adirondack region in the northeast is shaded with hachures. Three insets fill the corners: a plan of the Niagara River and its vicinity at the upper left, the Hudson River and its vicinity along the right edge, and a vicinity map of New York City at the lower left.

The Niagara and Hudson insets cover the two corridors that carried the state's traffic and travel, the frontier at the falls and the river route from the harbor to Albany and beyond. The date of 1876 is the centennial year of the republic, when atlases were being updated across the country.

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