1899 · Maps
Antique Map of Arkansas, with Hot Springs, Rand McNally, 1899
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- Date
- 1899
- Maker
- Rand McNally
- Kind
- Maps
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Color
- Printed color
- Size
- 52 × 69 cm (20.5 × 27.2 in)
- Condition
- Good. Good condition for its age. Light age toning, a few small spots in the margins and the original central fold as issued. Please review the images for further condition details.
- Period
- The Gilded Age
- Places
- Arkansas
- Reference
- BG-12793-2-53
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.
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About this piece
This antique map of Arkansas, published by Rand McNally in 1899 as a double-page sheet in its indexed atlas, shows the state in full, county by county, with every county named and its seat marked, and with the Mississippi River forming the ragged eastern boundary against Tennessee and Mississippi. The Indian Territory lies immediately to the west, left largely bare of the county detail given to Arkansas itself, a plain visual reminder that it was not yet organized into states.
Little Rock is marked at the center of the state on the Arkansas River, and the lines radiating from it and from Fort Smith, Pine Bluff and Texarkana show how thoroughly the railroads had reached the state by the 1890s. A numbered key running to roughly forty companies ties each line to its owner, from the larger systems such as the Saint Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern down to short local roads serving the timber and cotton country of the south and east.
A scale bar and the atlas's cross-reference page numbers sit along the lower margin, tying this sheet to the adjoining plates for Missouri, Louisiana and the Indian Territory that a purchaser of the full atlas would consult alongside it.
Rand McNally grew from a Chicago printing business started in the 1850s by William Rand and joined by Andrew McNally; by the 1890s it was among the leading map publishers in the United States, known for railroad and commercial maps revised from issue to issue. The map is a color lithograph, the process the firm used for its indexed atlas: the outline printed in black, with the county tints, the pink of the railroad ribbons and the pale washes distinguishing Arkansas from its neighbors printed in color over it. This antique map of Arkansas is an original 1899 sheet, issued folded through the center and suitable for framing. The color is printed rather than applied by hand.
The sheet is in good condition for its age, with light age toning, a few small spots in the margins and the original central fold as issued. Please review the images for further condition details.
This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.
