1899 · Maps
Antique Map of Cleveland, The Forest City, Rand McNally, 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, a few small spots in the margins and minor handling wear to the sheet edges. Please review the images for further condition details.
- Period
- The Gilded Age
- Places
- Ohio
- Reference
- BG-12793-2-35
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
Rand McNally's street plan on page 186 of its 1899 indexed atlas, this antique map of Cleveland, Ohio, follows the Lake Erie shore from the Government Harbor breakwater and the mouth of the Cuyahoga River out to the West Side and Newburgh Township.
The city proper is printed in pink within a red limit line, and the Glenville district to the northeast is shown as a separate yellow-tinted area with its own street pattern and a trotting course near the lakefront. The sharply meandering course of the Cuyahoga through the industrial Flats is drawn in fine detail, with the Union Depot, warehouses and rail yards along its banks, and the harbor works and the Cleveland Yacht Club house are marked along the lakefront breakwater.
Wade Park and Lake View Cemetery, where President Garfield's monument is specifically labeled, are picked out in green at the northeast corner of the sheet, with Woodland Cemetery and Riverside Cemetery further south, and the isolation hospital and reservoir at the southern edge are among the civic features named. The imprint at lower left carries both an 1888 and an 1894 copyright line, evidence of successive revisions to keep the plan current before this 1899 issue. The sheet is a street-by-street record of a fast-industrializing Great Lakes port at the close of the 1890s.
Rand, McNally and Company grew out of a Chicago printing business started in the 1850s by William Rand, who was soon joined by Andrew McNally. By the 1890s the firm was one of the leading map publishers in the United States, and this sheet belongs squarely to the railroad and commercial maps it was known for, revised from issue to issue.
The sheet is a color lithograph, the outline printed in black and every color printed over it rather than applied by hand. Once framed, this antique map of Cleveland would suit a home or office in the city today, and it will appeal to collectors of American city plans and local history.
The sheet is in good condition for its age, with light age toning, a few small spots in the margins and minor handling wear to the sheet edges. Please review the images for further condition details.
This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.
