Antique Map of Ohio, The Buckeye State, Rand McNally, 1899

Name: Antique Map of Ohio, The Buckeye State, Rand McNally, 1899
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12793-2-33
Price: 440 USD
Availability: InStock

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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: Ohio
Reference: BG-12793-2-33

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

Published by Rand McNally in 1899, this antique map of Ohio is a double-page county map on pages 178 and 179 of the indexed atlas, from Lake Erie and the Michigan border to the Ohio River, with an inset of Hamilton County and Cincinnati.

A very dense red railroad network is keyed by number to a legend of well over a hundred companies running down the left margin, among them the Baltimore and Ohio, several separately numbered Cleveland lines, the New York, Chicago and Saint Louis, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Saint Louis, and the several roads of Toledo. It records a density of lines that by 1899 made Ohio one of the most thoroughly served states in the country, and the railroad legend, more than any political coloring, is the sheet's chief distinguishing feature.

The boxed inset at lower right, "Map of Hamilton County, Ohio", enlarges the Cincinnati area to show the city and its surrounding townships. Across the main map the Western Reserve counties of the northeast, the Miami Valley in the southwest and the hill country along the Ohio River are distinguishable by their settlement patterns, the northern and western counties carrying a noticeably denser scatter of towns and rail lines than the rugged southeast. Scale is given as 13 statute miles to the inch, and a note at the foot directs the reader to the adjoining Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana maps.

Rand McNally's roots lie in a Chicago printing business started by William Rand in the 1850s and joined by Andrew McNally. The firm had become one of the foremost map publishers in the United States by the 1890s, and its indexed atlas of 1899 shows the house speciality at work: railroad and commercial maps revised from issue to issue.

In technique it is a lithograph printed in color, with the black outline printed first and the pastel colors printed over it. Once framed, this antique map of Ohio 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, 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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