Pennsylvania Antique Map c.1888 – The Keystone State, Northwestern Counties

Name: Pennsylvania Antique Map c.1888 – The Keystone State, Northwestern Counties
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-30
Price: 515 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. Good condition with light age toning and minor foxing in the central fold area. Margins clean with only slight handling wear. Plate mark visible around the border. Center fold as issued. No tears or significant damage.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Pennsylvania
Reference: BG-12794-30

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

Northwestern Pennsylvania in c.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 Northwestern Pennsylvania" appears across the top between atlas page numbers 248 and 249.

The sheet covers the counties from Lake Erie at the upper left down to Butler, with Crawford, Mercer, Venango, Forest, Warren, Elk, Cameron, Jefferson, Clarion and Clearfield lettered across the plate. Railroad lines run along the lake shore and through the river valleys, and the northern edge reaches into western New York, where the lettering for Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany counties appears. Ohio lies to the west along the left edge.

This was the country of Pennsylvania's early oil boom and of its timber and coal, and the sheet shows the network of lines that carried those products out to the lake and to the industrial cities of the region.

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