Antique Map of Idaho, The Gem State, Rand McNally, 1899

Name: Antique Map of Idaho, The Gem State, Rand McNally, 1899
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12793-2-63
Price: 385 USD
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Date: 1899
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Technique: Lithograph
Color: Printed color
Size: 52 × 36 cm (20.5 × 14.2 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition for its age. Light age toning, slightly deeper at the sheet edges, and minor handling wear. Please review the images for further condition details.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Idaho
Reference: BG-12793-2-63

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 Idaho printed by Rand McNally in 1899 on page 315 of its indexed atlas, this sheet is headed "Idaho" but its printed area covers roughly equal parts of Idaho and western Montana, the two states sharing the sheet on either side of the Bitterroot Range and the Continental Divide. The northern panhandle counties of Kootenai, Shoshone and Nez Perces sit at the far left around Coeur d'Alene and Lewiston, separated from the larger southern part of the state, with Idaho, Custer, Lemhi, Alturas, Logan, Cassia, Owyhee, Boise, Elmore, Bingham and Bear Lake counties, by mountainous central country that still shows comparatively little settlement detail at this date.

To the east, the Montana country around Helena, Butte, Anaconda, Silver Bow and Deer Lodge is mapped in equal detail, since the real organizing feature of the sheet is the Continental Divide and the rail corridors that cross it rather than a strict state boundary. A red railroad legend at upper right lists five lines, the Boise, Nampa and Owyhee, the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company and the Oregon Short Line, tracing the routes that linked Idaho's mining and agricultural districts to the transcontinental network through Montana.

The Snake River Plain across southern Idaho, already showing early irrigation-era place names around Boise, Hailey and the Snake River canyon near Shoshone Falls, contrasts with the still largely unlabelled high country of the Sawtooth and Salmon River mountains to the north, a genuine snapshot of how unevenly the region had been surveyed and settled by 1899. Scale is given as 26 statute miles to the inch.

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 Idaho is an original 1899 atlas sheet, printed as a color lithograph with the outline in black and the colors printed over it. 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, 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.

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