Antique Map of Iowa and Nebraska by Johnson, '1872'

Name: Antique Map of Iowa and Nebraska by Johnson, '1872'
Brand: A. J. Johnson
SKU: BG-12592-53
Price: 280 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1872
Maker: A. J. Johnson
Kind: Maps
Size: 45.5 × 67 cm (17.9 × 26.4 in)
Condition: Fair. General age-related toning, shows minor wear and creasing. Some soiling. Original folding line. English text on verso. Please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Iowa, Nebraska
Reference: BG-12592-53

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

Iowa and Nebraska on a single sheet, an original map from Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World, published by A.J. Johnson of New York, dated 1872. The sheet is printed in black with the counties outlined and tinted in pink, green and yellow, within a decorative ruled border.

The title "Johnson's Iowa and Nebraska, published by A.J. Johnson, New York" is lettered at the upper left. Iowa takes up most of the sheet and is divided into its full pattern of counties, with towns, rivers and railroad lines marked across the state. Nebraska appears as a narrower strip along the western edge, bounded by the Missouri River, and Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Missouri are named in the margins. Because the sheet is a wide landscape format, the two states are drawn at the same scale and can be compared directly.

The map shows the region in 1872, when Iowa was already densely settled and organized into counties, while Nebraska, a state only since 1867, was still filling in toward the west. The atlas page numbers are printed in the upper corners.

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