South Carolina Antique Map c.1888 – The Palmetto State, Railroads & Counties

Name: South Carolina Antique Map c.1888 – The Palmetto State, Railroads & Counties
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-26
Price: 515 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1888
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Size: 36 × 52.5 cm (14.2 × 20.7 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition with light overall age toning. Original center fold as issued with minor darkening along the crease. Plate mark visible. Margins clean with slight handling wear. No tears or major flaws.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: South Carolina
Reference: BG-12794-26

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

South Carolina in c.1888, an original map by Rand, McNally & Co. printed in black on toned paper with railroad lines overprinted in red and blue. The running head "Rand, McNally & Co.'s South Carolina" appears across the top between atlas page numbers 224 and 225, and a title panel at the lower left reads "Rand, McNally & Co.'s New Map of South Carolina."

The state is drawn with its counties and the Atlantic Ocean lettered along the coast at the right, with Charleston at the mouth of its harbor and Beaufort and the sea islands to the south. Railroad lines run through the Piedmont towns of the northwest, across the middle of the state and down toward the coast. North Carolina is lettered across the northern edge and Georgia at the western edge.

The sheet records the state in the years after Reconstruction, when the railroad lines running from Charleston inland and to the north were reshaping the trade of its farming counties.

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