Antique Map of the Western United States, Denver to the Pacific Coast, 1899

Name: Antique Map of the Western United States, Denver to the Pacific Coast, 1899
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12793-2-5
Price: 500 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1899
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Technique: Lithograph
Color: Printed color
Size: 69 × 52 cm (27.2 × 20.5 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition for its age. Light age toning, small pink color marks at the upper and lower edges and the original central fold as issued. Please review the images for further condition details.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Colorado
Reference: BG-12793-2-5

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

The western United States from Denver to the Pacific, an original color lithograph issued by Rand, McNally & Co. of Chicago in 1899 as a double-page sheet, numbered 18 and 19, in the firm's indexed atlas. The side margin carries the lettering "Rand, McNally & Co's New Commercial Map, Denver to Pacific Coast." The outline is printed in black with the colors printed over it, not applied by hand.

The sheet covers the whole western third of the country: Washington and Oregon in the northwest, California down the coast, and Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, each state or territory in its own pastel tint. British Columbia and the Canadian Northwest fill the top margin, and the Rio Grande frontier appears at the lower right. Arizona and New Mexico are still shown as territories. Mountain ranges are modeled in hachured relief, and Indian reservations are named and outlined, among them the Colville and Yakima in Washington, Pyramid Lake and Walker River in Nevada, and the Navajo, Hopi and San Carlos lands of Arizona and New Mexico.

Rand McNally was by the 1890s one of the leading map publishers in the United States, and this commercial map, with its railway lines and mining and reservation place names, belongs to the railroad cartography for which the firm was known.

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