Antique Map of Missouri, The Show-Me State, Rand McNally, 1899

Name: Antique Map of Missouri, The Show-Me State, Rand McNally, 1899
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12793-2-50
Price: 440 USD
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Date: 1899
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Technique: Lithograph
Color: Printed color
Size: 52 × 69 cm (20.5 × 27.2 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: Missouri
Reference: BG-12793-2-50

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 Missouri from Rand McNally's indexed atlas of 1899, this double-page spread on pages 254 and 255 maps the state county by county, from the Iowa border in the north to the Arkansas line in the south, and from Kansas and the great western bend of the Missouri River, where Kansas City and Saint Joseph both sit, to the Mississippi River and the Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee borders in the east. A boxed inset at lower right, "South-East Corner Extension," carries the coverage down into the Missouri Bootheel, with Pemiscot, New Madrid and Dunklin counties, an area that falls off the main frame.

A red-numbered railroad legend at upper right lists over sixty companies, among them the Atchison, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Hannibal and Saint Joseph, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the Missouri Pacific and the Wabash, with Saint Louis at the eastern edge and Kansas City at the western anchoring the two densest concentrations of lines. The Missouri River is traced across the full width of the state, its old steamboat towns, Boonville, Jefferson City, the capital, and Glasgow, still marked prominently even though railroads had by this date largely superseded river traffic for freight.

The Ozark Plateau counties in the south-center, rendered in comparatively dense hachured relief, show noticeably sparser settlement than the fertile river-bottom counties along the Missouri and Mississippi. Scale is given as 16 statute miles to the inch, and a note at the foot directs the reader to the adjoining Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Kansas and Nebraska maps.

Rand McNally, one of the leading map publishers in the United States by the 1890s, was known for railroad maps revised from issue to issue. This antique map of Missouri is an original 1899 color lithograph, with the outline printed in black and the colors printed over it. Issued folded through the center, 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, 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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