Arkansas Map by Colton, USA Published c.1864 – Hand-Colored County Map

Name: Arkansas Map by Colton, USA Published c.1864 – Hand-Colored County Map
Brand: J. H. Colton
SKU: BG-13952-33
Price: 370 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1864
Maker: J. H. Colton
Kind: Maps
Size: 35.7 × 45.7 cm (14.1 × 18 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition. Strong impression with original hand coloring remaining bright. Light general age toning and minor marginal spots or handling marks typical for antique atlas maps. No tears or repairs visible. Wide margins and plate mark intact.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Arkansas
Reference: BG-13952-33

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 state of Arkansas, a hand-colored steel-engraved county map published by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. of New York, dated by the gallery to about 1864. The title "Arkansas" is lettered at the lower right with the publisher's imprint beneath it.

Each county is tinted in pink, green, yellow or tan, and its name is printed across it. The Mississippi River forms the wavering eastern boundary, and the Arkansas River crosses the state from the northwest toward the southeast, with the White, Ouachita and Red Rivers traced beside it. Towns, roads and county seats are lettered, including Hot Springs, and the map shows the Indian Territory at the left and Missouri along the top. A key at the lower left explains the symbols for railroads, common roads and state capitals. The sheet is numbered at the lower right edge.

The date falls in the middle of the Civil War, when Arkansas was one of the states of the Confederacy, though the map itself gives no sign of the conflict and is a straightforward county map of the state.

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