Antique Map of Indiana – The Hoosier State with Railroads & Counties, 1888

Name: Antique Map of Indiana – The Hoosier State with Railroads & Counties, 1888
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-35
Price: 515 USD
Availability: InStock

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Shipping to the United States: $51 standard, $73 express, insured and tracked.

Date: 1888
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Size: 52.5 × 36 cm (20.7 × 14.2 in)
Condition: Good. Condition summary: Good condition overall. Light age toning and faint foxing in the margins. Original fold as issued. Strong paper and crisp engraved detail with no significant tears or repairs.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Indiana
Reference: BG-12794-35

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. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Indiana in 1888, an original map by Rand, McNally & Co. of Chicago from their Improved Indexed Business Atlas and Shippers Guide. The sheet is printed in black on toned paper with railroad lines overprinted in red and blue, and the running head "Rand, McNally & Co.'s Indiana" runs up the right margin beside atlas page numbers 312 and 313.

The state is shown on an upright sheet, with its counties outlined and an unusually dense web of railroad lines. Many of them converge on Indianapolis at the center, where lines radiate in every direction like spokes. Chicago is lettered boldly at the top left corner on Lake Michigan, and the Ohio River forms the southern border, with the Wabash River crossing the western half. Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky are lettered at their edges.

The sheet shows Indiana as the Midwestern crossroads it had become by the late 1880s, with trunk lines running between Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis, and a close network of branch lines serving its farm towns.

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