Antique Map of Utah, The Beehive State, Rand McNally, 1899

Name: Antique Map of Utah, The Beehive State, Rand McNally, 1899
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12793-2-65
Price: 385 USD
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Date: 1899
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Technique: Lithograph
Color: Printed color
Size: 52 × 36 cm (20.5 × 14.2 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition for its age. Light age toning, faint pencil annotations in the upper margin and within the map, and minor wear to the sheet edges. Please review the images for further condition details.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Utah
Reference: BG-12793-2-65

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

Rand McNally's antique map of Utah, published in Chicago in 1899 on page 321 of the firm's indexed atlas, shows the state county by county, from Box Elder, Cache and Rich in the north to Washington and Kane counties along the Arizona border in the south. The Great Salt Lake and the surrounding desert, the American Fork Desert and the Great Salt Lake Desert to the west, dominate the upper half of the sheet in dense hachured relief, while Salt Lake City and the string of settlements along the Wasatch Front, Ogden, Provo and Logan, are shown in markedly denser detail than the sparsely settled desert counties to the west and south.

The Uintah, Uncompahgre and Navajo Indian reservations are outlined across the eastern and southern parts of the state, and a red-numbered railroad key at upper right lists nine companies, among them the Oregon Short Line, the Rio Grande Western, the Union Pacific and the Utah and Pacific, with several short branch lines serving the Mercur and other mining districts, each keyed by number across the map. Utah's irrigated valley agriculture is implied by the density of named settlements along the base of the Wasatch Range, in sharp contrast to the canyon country of San Juan and Garfield counties in the southeast, which carries comparatively few place names.

Scale is given as 25 statute miles to the inch, with a kilometer bar in the same box as the railroad legend. A note at the foot directs the reader to the adjoining Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada maps, and a population table for the chief cities runs down the right margin.

Rand McNally grew from William Rand's Chicago printing business of the 1850s, joined by Andrew McNally, into one of the leading American map publishers of the 1890s. This antique map of Utah is an original 1899 color lithograph, with the outline printed in black and the colors printed over it, and it is suitable for framing. The color is printed rather than applied by hand.

The sheet is in good condition for its age, with light age toning, faint pencil annotations in the upper margin and within the map, and minor wear to the sheet edges. 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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