Plan of Baltimore City Map, USA c.1870 – Hand-Colored Street Plan

Name: Plan of Baltimore City Map, USA c.1870 – Hand-Colored Street Plan
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13952-31
Price: 360 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1870
Kind: Maps
Size: 31.2 × 39 cm (12.3 × 15.4 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition. Strong impression with bright original hand coloring. Light general age toning and minor marginal handling marks, with a faint stain at the bottom margin outside the printed area. No tears or repairs visible. Wide margins.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Maryland
Reference: BG-13952-31

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

The city of Baltimore, "Plan of Baltimore," a hand-colored street plan from an American atlas, dated by the gallery to about 1870. The title is set in a banner at the top of the sheet within a floral border, and an imprint at the foot names S. Augustus Mitchell Jr.

The plan shows the city in its twenty numbered wards, each tinted in pink, green, yellow or blue, with the grid of streets running outward from the harbor. Rail lines run into the city, and the Basin and the City Dock are drawn at the head of the harbor on the "N.W. Branch of Patapsco River," with the Middle Branch at the lower left. Green Mount Cemetery is named at the top, and Cathedral Cemetery at the upper left, and the public buildings and hospital are marked by small symbols, with street names lettered throughout.

At this date Baltimore was one of the largest ports and manufacturing cities on the Atlantic coast, and plans of this kind were used in atlases and reference books of the period.

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