Kansas Railroad Map 1888 – Rand McNally Antique Lithograph

Name: Kansas Railroad Map 1888 – Rand McNally Antique Lithograph
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-51
Price: 535 USD
Availability: InStock

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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: Kansas
Reference: BG-12794-51

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

Kansas in 1888, an original map by Rand, McNally & Co. printed in black on toned paper with railroad lines overprinted in red and blue. The running head "Rand, McNally & Co.'s Kansas" appears across the top between atlas page numbers 472 and 473, and a scale of statute miles is given at the lower left.

The state is covered by a close grid of counties, those in the east small and closely subdivided, those in the west larger and more regular, among them Greeley, Wichita, Stanton, Grant and Seward. A dense web of railroad lines fills the eastern half and the corridor toward the Colorado border, converging on Kansas City at the northeast corner and on the larger towns along the way. The southern border is lettered with Indian Territory, where the Cherokee lands ("Cherokee Outlet") and the "Public Land" strip appear, and Nebraska lies beyond the northern line.

Kansas had been a state since 1861, and the sheet shows it in the decade after the great railroad building boom, when new lines had reached nearly every county of the western plains and set the pattern of towns that survives today.

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