Antique Map of Georgia, The Peach State, Rand McNally, 1899

Name: Antique Map of Georgia, The Peach State, Rand McNally, 1899
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12793-2-27
Price: 440 USD
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Date: 1899
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Technique: Lithograph
Color: Printed color
Size: 69 × 52 cm (27.2 × 20.5 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition for its age. Light, even age toning, minor wear to the right edge and the original central fold as issued. Please review the images for further condition details.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Georgia
Reference: BG-12793-2-27

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

With one of the longest railroad legends in the whole atlas, this antique map of Georgia by Rand McNally, 1899, is a double-page county map on pages 138 and 139 of the indexed atlas, from the Tennessee line to the Okefenokee Swamp.

The mountainous northern tier, Walker, Chattooga, Gordon and Habersham among its counties, gives way to the Piedmont around Atlanta and then the flat coastal plain, where the Okefenokee is shown with a stippled marsh symbol straddling the Florida line. The Chattahoochee, Ocmulgee, Oconee and Savannah rivers are traced in fine detail, and county seats are named even in the thinly settled wiregrass counties of the southeast, Ware, Clinch, Echols and Charlton among them. Savannah, with its harbor and the barrier islands offshore, anchors the coast.

The legend at upper right, numbered in red, runs to over ninety companies, among them the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern, the Central of Georgia, the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery, and the Georgia, Carolina and Northern, reflecting Georgia's place as the rail hub of the Deep South at the close of the century. Atlanta sits at the densest convergence of lines, and the state's cotton and timber economy is legible in the short lines radiating from Atlanta, Macon, Savannah and Augusta towards the smaller mill and depot towns. Scale is given as 15 statute miles to the inch, and a note at upper left directs the reader to the adjoining North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Alabama sheets.

Behind the sheet stands one of the great names of American map publishing. William Rand opened a printing business in Chicago in the 1850s, Andrew McNally joined him, and by the 1890s Rand McNally was one of the leading map publishers in the United States, with a reputation built on railroad and commercial maps kept current from issue to issue.

In technique it is a lithograph printed in color, with the black outline printed first and the pastel colors printed over it. Once framed, this antique map of Georgia would suit a home or office in the state today, and it will appeal to collectors of American state maps and railroad history.

The sheet is in good condition for its age, with light, even age toning, minor wear to the right edge 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.

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