1899 · Maps
Antique Map of New Jersey, The Garden State, Rand McNally, 1899
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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 faint spots in the margins and minor handling wear to the sheet edges. Please review the images for further condition details.
- Period
- The Gilded Age
- Places
- New Jersey
- Reference
- BG-12793-2-16
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.
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About this piece
Published by Rand McNally in 1899, this antique map of New Jersey maps the state county by county on page 68 of the indexed atlas, from the Highlands and the Kittatinny ridge down to Cape May, with insets around Camden and Jersey City.
The ridge country of the northwest is drawn in the fine hachured relief the atlas used for mountainous ground, and the map continues through the industrial river counties opposite New York and Philadelphia to the pine barrens and the shore counties facing the Atlantic and Delaware Bay. The two insets in the upper left enlarge the crowded railway country around Camden and Jersey City, each with township detail too dense to show legibly on the main map.
A numbered key running to seventy-eight railroad companies fills most of the lower right quarter, matching a network that by the 1890s was among the most saturated in the country, threading every county from the Manhattan-facing shore at Jersey City and Hoboken down to the Cape May peninsula at the southern tip. A list of the chief cities and towns with their populations runs down the left margin, and county lines are printed in red over pale tints. A note along the foot directs the reader to the adjoining plates for New York, Delaware and Pennsylvania.
The publisher, Rand, McNally and Company of Chicago, began as a printing business founded by William Rand in the 1850s and joined by Andrew McNally. By the time of the 1899 indexed atlas it ranked among the leading American map publishers, known above all for railroad and commercial maps that were revised from one issue to the next.
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 New Jersey 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 age toning, a few faint spots in the margins and minor handling wear to the sheet edges. Please review the images for further condition details.
This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.
