Southwestern Pennsylvania Antique Map c.1888 – Keystone State Counties & Cities

Name: Southwestern Pennsylvania Antique Map c.1888 – Keystone State Counties & Cities
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-29
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 mild age toning and light fold wear along the issued center fold. A few minor spots of foxing but no tears or major losses. Plate mark visible. Strong impression with excellent detail.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Pennsylvania
Reference: BG-12794-29

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

Southwestern Pennsylvania 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 Southwestern Pennsylvania" appears across the top between atlas page numbers 244 and 245.

The sheet is centered on Pittsburgh at the upper left, where the rivers meet and the lines of the railroads converge, with the counties of Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland, Fayette, Greene, Somerset, Bedford, Fulton, Indiana, Cambria and Butler lettered across the plate. The long parallel ridges of the Allegheny Mountains are drawn in hachures across the east, and the southern edge reaches into northern West Virginia (lettered "Monongalia," "Marion" and "Preston") and Maryland.

The map records the region around Pittsburgh in the years when coal, coke and steel were making it a national industrial center, with railroad lines running out along the river valleys to reach the mines and mills.

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