Antique Map of the Coal Fields of the United States by Walker '1874'

Name: Antique Map of the Coal Fields of the United States by Walker '1874'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-11875-40
Price: 760 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1874
Kind: Maps
Size: 55 × 79 cm (21.7 × 31.1 in)
Condition: Good. Original folding line. General age-related toning, minor wear. Blank verso, please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
Reference: BG-11875-40

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

A map of the coal fields of the United States, compiled by Charles H. Hitchcock with the statistics of coal product from the ninth census of 1870 supplied by Francis A. Walker, and published in 1874 in the Statistical Atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census. The sheet is a color-printed double-page map, numbered Pl. XI and XII at the upper corners.

The lettering credits state reports and data furnished by a list of geologists, among them W.B. Rogers, E.T. Cox, A.H. Worthen, Richard Owen and G.C. Swallow. The coal measures are laid over a faint base map of rivers, state lines and place names: the long diagonal band of the Appalachian field runs from Pennsylvania down toward Alabama, with separate fields shown across Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, in the Missouri and Iowa region, farther west, and in central Michigan. A color key at right distinguishes the types of coal. A small inset at the foot, "Map of the first and second anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania," shows the narrow anthracite basins in detail.

The map pairs geology with industry, giving the coal-producing regions of the early 1870s.

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