Rare 1888 Map of Arizona – Railroads, Mines & Early Frontier Settlements

Name: Rare 1888 Map of Arizona – Railroads, Mines & Early Frontier Settlements
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-63
Price: 535 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1888
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Size: 52.5 × 36 cm (20.7 × 14.2 in)
Condition: Good. Condition summary: Good condition overall. Light toning consistent with age, faint foxing in some margins, and original fold lines as issued. Paper remains strong with no significant tears or repairs. Clear plate impression throughout.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Arizona
Reference: BG-12794-63

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 Territory of Arizona in 1888, an original atlas map from Rand, McNally & Co.'s Improved Indexed Business Atlas and Shippers Guide, titled "Rand, McNally & Co.'s Arizona" in the right margin.

The territory is drawn in detail, with county boundaries and county names across the sheet, among them Mohave, Yavapai, Yuma, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal and Cochise. Railroads are traced in red and blue: the Southern Pacific crossing the south from Yuma through the Tucson area toward New Mexico, and the Atlantic & Pacific line running across the northern part of the territory through Flagstaff and Winslow. Towns, mining camps, stage roads, rivers, ranges and military posts are lettered throughout, including Prescott, Tucson, Phoenix, Tombstone and Nogales. Utah and Nevada lie along the top, California at the left, New Mexico at the right, and Mexico below, with the head of the Gulf of California at the lower left.

Arizona did not become a state until 1912, so the sheet shows the region as a territory in the years when the railroads and the mines were bringing it into the national economy.

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