1899 · Maps
Antique Map of Washington State, The Evergreen State, Rand McNally, 1899
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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 age toning, a few small pencil marks near the upper left title and the original central fold as issued. Please review the images for further condition details.
- Period
- The Gilded Age
- Places
- Washington
- Reference
- BG-12793-2-73
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.
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About this piece
This antique map of Washington State is Rand McNally's 1899 plate from the firm's indexed atlas, printed in Chicago across a double-page spread, pages 356 and 357. It covers Washington in full and extends north into a strip of British Columbia, with a legend at upper left keying twenty-six named railroad lines by number, among them the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern and the Spokane Falls and Northern.
Hachured relief marks the Cascade Range running north to south through the center of the sheet, dividing the timbered, settled counties of the Puget Sound lowlands from the drier wheat country to the east. County boundaries are outlined in red, and reservation lands, among them the Colville, Spokane and Yakima Indian reservations, are labeled directly on the plate. Every incorporated town, however small, is set in the same fine roman type that gives Rand McNally atlases of this period their density of information.
The sheet is a good example of the firm's commercial map production: the fine, even line work and the red overprinting for county lines and railroad numbers were both revisable year to year on the same plate, which is why an 1899 issue of this map differs in its rail network from an issue only a few years earlier or later. A statute mile and kilometer scale bar sits below the legend, and the imprint at the foot of the sheet carries the firm's 1899 copyright.
Rand McNally grew from a Chicago printing business started in the 1850s by William Rand and joined by Andrew McNally, and by the 1890s it was one of the leading map publishers in the United States. This antique map of Washington is a color lithograph, the outline printed in black with the colors printed over it, and an original 1899 atlas sheet, issued folded through the center. 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, a few small pencil marks near the upper left title 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.
