1899 · Maps
Antique Map of British Columbia, with Queen Charlotte Islands, 1899
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- Date
- 1899
- Maker
- Rand McNally
- Kind
- Maps
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Color
- Printed color
- Size
- 36 × 52 cm (14.2 × 20.5 in)
- Condition
- Good. Good condition for its age. Light age toning, slightly deeper at the sheet edges, clean margins and minor handling wear. Please review the images for further condition details.
- Period
- The Gilded Age
- Places
- Canada
- Reference
- BG-12793-2-77
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
An antique map of British Columbia from page 365 of Rand McNally's 1899 indexed atlas, this sheet covers the southern and central interior of the province rather than the whole of it: the Cariboo, Lillooet, Yale and Kootenay districts fill the main map, with Vancouver Island and the Gulf of Georgia at lower left and Victoria, Nanaimo and Esquimalt marked along the coast. An inset at upper right, captioned "Northern Part of British Columbia" and drawn on a smaller scale, extends the coverage north to Sitka and the Alaska panhandle boundary.
The province is left largely uncolored, its mountain ranges rendered entirely in the dense gray hachuring typical of the firm's relief work rather than the flat printed tints used on its political maps; only the international and provincial boundary lines are picked out in red. A red-lettered railroad key at lower right numbers nine lines then in operation or under construction, including the Canadian Pacific main line and the Esquimalt and Nanaimo, the Nelson and Fort Sheppard and the Victoria and Sidney branches, each keyed by number across the sheet.
The Fraser and Thompson river systems and the Gold Range and Selkirk Mountains are named across the mountainous interior, along with grazing and agricultural notes such as "Good Hay Meadows" and "Wooded Plateau" that reflect the settlement information atlases of this period tried to convey alongside pure topography. Scale is given as 58 statute miles to the inch on the main map, with the northern inset at a smaller scale of its own.
Rand McNally grew from a Chicago printing business started in the 1850s by William Rand and joined by Andrew McNally, and by the 1890s it was one of the leading map publishers in the United States, known for railroad maps revised from issue to issue. This antique map of British Columbia is a color lithograph, the outline printed in black with the red printed over it, and an original 1899 atlas sheet. It is 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, slightly deeper at the sheet edges, clean margins and minor handling wear. Please review the images for further condition details.
This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.
