Antique Map of Toronto, with Queen's Park, Rand McNally, 1899

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Antique Map of Toronto, with Queen's Park, Rand McNally, 1899

Name: Antique Map of Toronto, with Queen's Park, Rand McNally, 1899
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12793-2-82
Price: 330 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1899
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Technique: Lithograph
Color: Printed color
Size: 36 × 52 cm (14.2 × 20.5 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition for its age. Light age toning, a few small spots in the margins and light wear with small nicks to the right edge. Please review the images for further condition details.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-12793-2-82

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

Toronto in 1899, a large-scale street plan and an original color lithograph by Rand, McNally & Co. of Chicago, printed on page 382 of the firm's indexed atlas. The outline is printed in black with the colors printed over it.

The plan runs from High Park and the Humber River on the west to the Don River valley on the east, and from the annexed northern suburbs, tinted yellow beyond the city limit, down to the waterfront on Lake Ontario. The built-up city is washed pink, with parks and institutional grounds picked out in green: Queen's Park and the grounds of the Ontario Parliament Buildings, Trinity College and the university grounds, and the cemeteries along the Don and to the north. Streets are named across the grid, with lettered and numbered border squares for finding places. The harbor is mapped in detail, with Toronto Island and its sand spit, the lagoons, Hanlan's Point and the lighthouse, and Humber Bay and Ashbridge's Bay on either side. A boxed inset at lower right, "Eastern Part of Toronto, on Same Scale," extends the plan past the Woodbine race course.

The side margin carries the lettering "Rand, McNally & Co's Toronto," and the sheet shows a rapidly growing city at the close of the 1890s.

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