Antique Map of Northern Ohio – The Buckeye State with Railroads & Counties, 1888

Name: Antique Map of Northern Ohio – The Buckeye State with Railroads & Counties, 1888
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-33
Price: 515 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1888
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Size: 36 × 52.5 cm (14.2 × 20.7 in)
Condition: Good. Condition summary: Good condition overall. Mild toning and faint foxing in the margins and around the foldline. Original center fold as issued. Strong paper with crisp engraved detail, no major tears or repairs.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Ohio
Reference: BG-12794-33

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

Northern Ohio 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 Northern Ohio" appears across the top between atlas page numbers 280 and 281.

The upper half of the state is shown on a wide sheet, with Lake Erie drawn along the top in fine contour-like lines. Toledo sits at the western end of the lake, Cleveland on the shore at the upper right, and a thick network of railroad lines crosses the counties and townships, running between the lake ports and the interior and out toward Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The county and township grid is printed closely, and the lettering of the counties lies across the sheet.

The map shows the industrial network of northern Ohio in the 1880s, when the lake ports and the iron and coal belt to the south were joined by an increasingly dense system of lines.

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