Indian Territory Map 1888 – Rand McNally Antique Lithograph

Name: Indian Territory Map 1888 – Rand McNally Antique Lithograph
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-50
Price: 535 USD
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Date: 1888
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Size: 36 × 52.5 cm (14.2 × 20.7 in)
Condition: Good. With mild toning and foxing, particularly along the lower margin. Slight edge wear consistent with age. Paper strong, with plate mark faintly visible. No major tears.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Oklahoma
Reference: BG-12794-50

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

Indian Territory in 1888, nearly two decades before it became part of the state of Oklahoma in 1907, on an original map by Rand, McNally & Co. The sheet is printed in black on toned paper with railroad lines overprinted in red and blue. The running head "Rand, McNally & Co.'s Indian Territory" appears across the top between atlas page numbers 468 and 469.

"Indian Territory" is lettered boldly across the middle of the sheet. The map is divided into the lands of the tribal nations, with the eastern part given over to the Five Civilized Tribes (the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole nations), and the western part, including the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands, laid out with county-like divisions. Rivers cross the sheet from northwest to southeast, among them the Canadian, the Arkansas and the Red River along the southern edge, and railroad lines run through the eastern half from Kansas toward Texas.

The sheet records the territory shortly before the land runs of 1889 and the 1890s opened its western areas to non-Native settlement and set it on the road to statehood.

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