Minnesota and Dakota Map – Johnson, Hand-Colored, USA c.1864

Name: Minnesota and Dakota Map – Johnson, Hand-Colored, USA c.1864
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13952-38
Price: 325 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1864
Kind: Maps
Size: 35.7 × 45.7 cm (14.1 × 18 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition. Strong impression with bright original hand coloring. Light general age toning and minor marginal spots or handling marks, typical for antique atlas maps. Edges a bit rough but outside the image.. Wide margins and plate mark intact.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota
Reference: BG-13952-38

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

Minnesota and Dakota, "Johnson's Minnesota and Dakota by Johnson and Ward," a hand-colored steel-engraved map published in New York around 1864. The title is lettered at the lower left in the publisher's ornamental border, with a key to the symbols above it.

Minnesota is drawn as a state, with its counties tinted in pink, green and yellow, and the settled area concentrated in the southeast along the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. To the west the Dakota territory fills the left half of the sheet, with only a few place names and with the Missouri River winding across it, and tinted in large blocks. Lake Superior appears at the right, and along the top the map is lettered "British Possessions." A note in the upper left corner describes the region of the Red River of the North, and a note near the Dakota border refers to the Indian tribes of the region. Iowa lies below Minnesota and Wisconsin to the east.

The sheet shows the region just after the Dakota War of 1862 and before Dakota was divided into two states in 1889.

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