Plan of Cincinnati Map, USA c.1870 – Hand-Colored Street Plan with Wards

Name: Plan of Cincinnati Map, USA c.1870 – Hand-Colored Street Plan with Wards
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13952-29
Price: 290 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 typical for antique atlas maps. One tear in lower border touching image. Wide margins and plate mark intact.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Ohio
Reference: BG-13952-29

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

Cincinnati and its neighbors across the Ohio River, an original engraved street plan with hand-colored wards, titled "Plan of Cincinnati and Vicinity" and dated c. 1870. The sheet is surrounded by an ornamental border of intertwined leaves and flowers, and a copyright notice in the lower margin is printed in the name of a Mitchell.

The plan shows the street grid of the city, with each numbered ward tinted in pink, yellow, green or blue wash. Ward numbers from 1 to 21 are printed large across the sheet. Railroads run in from the west and north, the Miami Canal curves across the top of the city, and Mill Creek crosses the lower left. The broad Ohio River runs diagonally from left to right, lettered across its width, and on the Kentucky shore the plan continues to Covington at the bottom and Newport at the right, both drawn as street grids with their own colored sections. A corporation line is marked along the northern edge.

Plans of this kind were issued in American atlases and geographies, and they record Cincinnati in the years when it was one of the largest cities of the Midwest.

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