Antique Map of Indiana, The Hoosier State, Rand McNally, 1899

Name: Antique Map of Indiana, The Hoosier State, Rand McNally, 1899
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12793-2-37
Price: 385 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 handling wear to the sheet edges and the original central fold as issued. Please review the images for further condition details.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Indiana
Reference: BG-12793-2-37

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

This antique map of Indiana spans pages 194 and 195 of the Rand McNally indexed atlas of 1899, a double-page county map running from Lake Michigan and the South Bend area to the Ohio River and the Kentucky border.

A railroad legend numbered in red at lower right lists over seventy companies, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Chicago and Erie, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and Saint Louis, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago among them. Indianapolis, near the geographic center of the state, sits at the convergence of the densest cluster of lines on the sheet.

The Wabash River is traced across the northwest quarter of the state, and the hill country of southern Indiana, Brown, Monroe, Lawrence and Orange counties, is printed in noticeably denser hachured relief than the flat glaciated farmland of the northern two-thirds, a genuine topographic contrast the map captures well. County seats and rail towns are named in fine detail throughout, consistent with Indiana's standing as one of the more thoroughly surveyed and subdivided states in the atlas. Scale is given as 13 statute miles to the inch, and a note at upper left directs the reader to the adjoining Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois maps.

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.

Technically the sheet is a lithograph with printed color: the outline was printed in black and the colors were printed over it, so none of the coloring was added by hand. Once framed, this antique map of Indiana 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 handling wear to the sheet edges 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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