Explore North America in 1903 - Intricately Detailed Antique Map

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Explore North America in 1903 - Intricately Detailed Antique Map

Name: Explore North America in 1903 - Intricately Detailed Antique Map
Brand: W. & A. K. Johnston
SKU: BG-13577-40
Price: 380 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1903
Maker: W. & A. K. Johnston
Kind: Maps
Size: 47 × 36.8 cm (18.5 × 14.5 in)
Condition: Good. This map is in very good condition, with some minor foxing and small creases typical of antique maps. The paper is strong, and the colors remain clear and vibrant.
Period: The Twentieth Century
Reference: BG-13577-40

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

North America in 1903, a color-printed map of the whole continent by Keith Johnston, engraved, printed and published by W. & A.K. Johnston of Edinburgh and London. The title "North America" appears at the lower left, with three scale bars set beneath it.

The sheet covers the continent from the Arctic islands and Greenland in the north to Panama in the south. Canada, the United States and Mexico are separated by colored boundaries, with the Canadian provinces and the American states each outlined, and the Central American republics are shown in the south. Rivers, lakes and mountain ranges are drawn throughout, with the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico clear in the middle of the sheet. At the lower right the Caribbean is named and the Bahamas and the Greater Antilles, including Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico, appear along the edge of the sheet. A small inset is placed at the upper left, below Alaska.

A map of this date shows the continent after the Spanish-American War of 1898 and before the creation of Alberta and Saskatchewan as provinces in 1905, a useful snapshot of the political arrangement of the Americas at the turn of the twentieth century.

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