Texas Antique Map 1888 – Railroads, Counties & Frontier Settlements

Name: Texas Antique Map 1888 – Railroads, Counties & Frontier Settlements
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-49
Price: 605 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. With mild toning and light foxing along margins and folding line. Slight edge wear consistent with age. Paper remains strong with plate mark visible. No significant tears or losses.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Texas
Reference: BG-12794-49

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

Texas in 1888, an original map of the whole state by Rand, McNally & Co. The sheet is printed in black on toned paper with a few railroad lines overprinted in red, and the running head "Rand, McNally & Co.'s Texas" appears across the top between atlas page numbers 464 and 465. A scale of statute miles is given at the lower right.

The state is drawn with every county outlined and railroad lines densest across the eastern and central counties toward Galveston and the Gulf of Mexico, which is lettered across the lower right. The Rio Grande runs along the Mexican border, with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila and Nuevo Leon lettered beyond it, and New Mexico lies above the western panhandle line. An inset at the lower left gives a larger-scale view of the northwestern counties of the state, which were still thinly settled.

Railroads are the subject of the map. In 1888 the Texas rail network was still spreading westward from the heavily settled east, and the sheet shows both the thick rail grid of the Gulf plain and the sparsely traced frontier counties of the west.

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