Original Antique Map of Iowa, Published in 1881

Name: Original Antique Map of Iowa, Published in 1881
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13321-2
Price: 325 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1881
Kind: Maps
Size: 21 × 27 cm (8.3 × 10.6 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. General age-related toning, minor wear. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Iowa
Reference: BG-13321-2

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

Iowa in a color-printed county map titled "Iowa", from the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1881. The sheet is engraved and printed in color, with every county tinted in a mix of pink, yellow, green and blue so that the boundaries can be read at a glance.

The state is drawn within its neat rectangle, with the Mississippi River forming the eastern edge against Illinois and Wisconsin and the Missouri River along the western side beside Nebraska and Dakota. Minnesota lies to the north and Missouri to the south. County names are lettered large across each county, and county towns and railroads are engraved in fine lines, with a note in the lower right identifying "County Towns and Railroads". Towns on the Mississippi, such as Dubuque, Davenport and Burlington, appear along the river, and Sioux City is named at the western corner. A scale of miles and the volume and plate numbers are printed along the margins.

The map shows Iowa after the growth of its railroad network in the decades following the Civil War, when new counties were being laid out across the northwest of the state.

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