Antique Map of Western States, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa by A & C. Black, 1870

Name: Antique Map of Western States, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa by A & C. Black, 1870
Brand: Adam & Charles Black
SKU: BG-12784-44
Price: 195 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1870
Maker: Adam & Charles Black
Kind: Maps
Size: 33 × 44.5 cm (13 × 17.5 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. some foxing, Please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Reference: BG-12784-44

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 upper Midwest on a map titled "Western States, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, with portions of Illinois & Indiana", from Black's General Atlas of the World, published by A. & C. Black in 1870. The sheet is an engraved map colored by state, with the title at upper right.

The sheet is centered on the Great Lakes. Lake Michigan separates the two peninsulas of Michigan from Wisconsin, while Lake Superior and part of Lake Huron form the northern edge, with Canada lettered at right. Minnesota is tinted green at upper left, Wisconsin yellow, Michigan pink and Iowa pink at lower left, with the northern parts of Illinois and Indiana tinted at the foot of the sheet. Counties, towns, lakes and rivers are lettered, railways are drawn through the settled southern districts, and the Mississippi forms the western edge of Wisconsin and Illinois and the eastern edge of Iowa.

The map shows these states within a few years of the end of the Civil War, when the railways were opening the upper Midwest to settlement.

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