Johnson’s Illinois Map, USA c.1864 – Hand-Colored with Chicago Courthouse View

Name: Johnson’s Illinois Map, USA c.1864 – Hand-Colored with Chicago Courthouse View
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13952-43
Price: 300 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1864
Kind: Maps
Size: 45.7 × 35.7 cm (18 × 14.1 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition. Strong impression with bright original hand coloring. Light general age toning and minor marginal handling marks typical for antique atlas maps. Only very small tears visible in borders. Wide margins and plate mark intact.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Illinois
Reference: BG-13952-43

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 Illinois, "Johnson's Illinois by Johnson and Ward," a hand-colored steel-engraved county map published in New York around 1864. The title is lettered at the lower right, and the sheet carries the plate number 51 in the upper right corner within the publisher's ornamental border.

The counties are tinted in pink, green and yellow, with their names printed across them. The Mississippi River forms the western boundary and the Ohio River the southern tip of the state, and Lake Michigan appears at the upper right with the Wabash River along the eastern edge. Railroads cross the sheet in dark lines, converging on Chicago, and canals and the Illinois River run through the northern half. Iowa and Missouri are lettered at the left. A small engraved vignette at the lower left shows the Court House at Chicago, an imposing building with a central cupola.

In the 1860s Illinois was a major corn and railroad state, and the map records the dense network of lines that made Chicago the rail center of the Midwest.

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