Antique Map of Nevada, The Silver State, Rand McNally, 1899

Name: Antique Map of Nevada, The Silver State, Rand McNally, 1899
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12793-2-71
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, a few small spots in the margins and minor wear to the right edge. Please review the images for further condition details.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Nevada
Reference: BG-12793-2-71

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 Nevada from page 348 of Rand McNally's 1899 indexed atlas, this sheet shows the state county by county: Washoe, Humboldt, Elko, Lander, Eureka and White Pine across the north, Churchill, Ormsby, Douglas, Esmeralda and Nye through the center and south, and Lincoln in the far southeast corner bordering Arizona. County lines are picked out in red, and the characteristic basin-and-range topography, dozens of short, roughly parallel mountain ranges separated by broad closed valleys, is rendered throughout in fine hachured relief, with named peaks and passes given in very granular detail.

A red-numbered railroad key at lower left lists the lines then serving the state, each identified by its Wells, Fargo and Company express agency: the Carson and Colorado and the Virginia and Truckee, the Eureka and Palisade, the Nevada Central, the Nevada-California-Oregon, and the transcontinental Southern Pacific main line crossing the Humboldt River valley through Winnemucca and Elko. Carson City, the state capital, and the mining towns of Virginia City, Eureka, Austin and Pioche are named along the rail corridors.

A cross-reference line at the foot points the atlas user to the adjoining maps of Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and California, showing how the individual state plates were meant to be consulted together. The sheet carries no political-boundary color wash beyond the red county lines, a common treatment for the more sparsely settled western states in this atlas.

Rand McNally grew from a Chicago printing business begun in the 1850s by William Rand and joined by Andrew McNally, and it was known by the 1890s for railroad and commercial maps revised from issue to issue. This antique map of Nevada is an original 1899 color lithograph, the outline printed in black and the color 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, a few small spots in the margins and minor wear to the right edge. 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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