Pl. 17A Antique Chart of the US Population 1860 by Walker, '1874'

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Pl. 17A Antique Chart of the US Population 1860 by Walker, '1874'

Name: Pl. 17A Antique Chart of the US Population 1860 by Walker, '1874'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-11875-13
Price: 505 USD
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Date: 1860
Kind: Maps
Size: 55 × 41 cm (21.7 × 16.1 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, minor wear. Blank verso, please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Reference: BG-11875-13

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About this piece

The population of the United States in 1860, an original lithograph (Plate 17A) from the Statistical Atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870, compiled by Francis A. Walker and published in 1874. The map is headed "The Progress of the Nation, 1860" and is compiled from the returns of the eighth census.

It shows, in five degrees of density, the distribution of the population of the United States east of the 100th meridian, excluding Indians not taxed. The map covers the country from the Atlantic to the plains, with the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas drawn in outline. Density is printed in graded gray tints, darkest across the northeastern states and the Ohio valley, and a scale at the lower right explains the five degrees. A star marks the center of population, and the thin coverage at the western edge of the map shows how little of the plains was then settled.

The sheet records the country on the eve of the Civil War, one of the decades in the atlas's series of density maps.

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