Antique Ontario Map Wall Art – Lake Superior & Northern Ontario, ca.1888

1888 · Maps

Antique Ontario Map Wall Art – Lake Superior & Northern Ontario, ca.1888

Name: Antique Ontario Map Wall Art – Lake Superior & Northern Ontario, ca.1888
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-75
Price: 315 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1888
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Size: 27.5 × 35.7 cm (10.8 × 14.1 in)
Condition: Good. Even age toning throughout. Light edge wear and minor handling marks consistent with original atlas use. No major tears or losses; overall a clean and well-preserved example.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-12794-75

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 northwestern part of Ontario on a page of Rand, McNally and Co.'s atlas, c.1888, with the title "North Western Part of Ontario" lettered in a scroll cartouche at the upper right. The map is printed in black.

Lake Superior fills the lower left center, its shore drawn in fine contour lines. Lake Nipigon and Lac Seul lie to the north, with Manitoba lettered at the left and Wisconsin and Michigan at the lower left. A railroad line runs along the north shore of the lake and continues northeast across the sheet. James Bay appears at the upper right, with the rivers running toward it, and the margin carries a lettered and numbered grid for finding places. A scale of statute miles sits under the cartouche.

The old description names Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay (Fort William and Port Arthur) and routes toward Hudson Bay. The sheet shows the region in the 1880s, when the new railroad opened the lakes and forests north of Superior to settlement and timber.

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