Pl. 9 Antique Hypsometric Sketch of the United States by Walker, 1874

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Pl. 9 Antique Hypsometric Sketch of the United States by Walker, 1874

Name: Pl. 9 Antique Hypsometric Sketch of the United States by Walker, 1874
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-11875-9
Price: 505 USD
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Date: 1874
Kind: Maps
Size: 41 × 55 cm (16.1 × 21.7 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, minor wear. Blank verso, please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-11875-9

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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.

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About this piece

The elevation of the United States, an original color lithograph (Plate 9) 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 title is "Hypsometric sketch of the United States", and the note gives the credits: the level curves of 400 and 800 feet of elevation were constructed by A. Guyot, and those of 2000, 4000 and 8000 feet by Chas. A. Schott of the U.S. Coast Survey.

The map covers the whole country, with the Great Lakes, the Gulf coast and Florida, and the Caribbean islands of Cuba and the Bahamas at the lower right. Elevation is shown in tints of tan and brown that deepen as the ground rises, from the pale lowlands of the Mississippi valley and the Atlantic plain to the dark ranges of the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada, and a scale of elevation sits at the right. The mountain systems are picked out in gray line, and the title block stands at the foot of the sheet.

It is one of the physical maps of the atlas, which placed the census figures in the setting of the country's geography.

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