Antique Chart of the Storm Centres of the United States, 1874

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Antique Chart of the Storm Centres of the United States, 1874

Name: Antique Chart of the Storm Centres of the United States, 1874
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-11875-6
Price: 450 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1874
Kind: Maps
Size: 41 × 55 cm (16.1 × 21.7 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, minor wear. Blank verso, please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-11875-6

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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.

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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

Storm centers of the United States, an original lithograph (Plate VI) from the Statistical Atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870, compiled by Francis A. Walker and published in 1874. The title block reads "U.S. Signal Service chart showing the frequency of storm centers", and a note explains that it shows the number of storm centers passing over each point, deduced from the average of the two years March 1871 to February 1873, compiled from data collected at the Office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army.

The map covers the whole country from the Pacific to the Atlantic, with the mountain ranges of the West drawn in outline and the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico and the rivers of the East clearly marked. The data cover only the region east of the Rocky Mountains: a band of gray tones graded by a scale at the lower center darkens over the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi valley, where the most storm centers passed, and thins toward the south. A strip of heavier shading extends down the Atlantic coast.

The plate belongs to the climate section of the atlas and uses the early work of the Army Signal Service.

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