Antique Chart of the US Predominating Sex, 1874

1874 · Maps

Antique Chart of the US Predominating Sex, 1874

Name: Antique Chart of the US Predominating Sex, 1874
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-11875-31
Price: 560 USD
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Date: 1874
Kind: Maps
Size: 55 × 41 cm (21.7 × 16.1 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, minor wear. Blank verso, please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-11875-31

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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

The predominating sex in the United States in 1870, an original color lithograph (Plate XXXVII) 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 reads "Map of predominating sex showing the local excess of males or of females in the distribution of population over the territory of the United States east of the 100th meridian", compiled from the statistics of population at the ninth census.

The map covers the eastern United States, with the Great Lakes, Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba and the Bahamas outlined. Counties are tinted in violet, graded by a scale at the right, with the deepest tint across the western frontier from Minnesota to Texas, where men outnumbered women, and lighter tones in the older settled states. Blue lines mark districts, and an explanation is printed beneath the title.

The pattern shows the frontier in the census returns, where the newest settlements had the largest surplus of men.

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