West Virginia Antique Railroad Map c.1888 – Mountain State Counties & Towns

Name: West Virginia Antique Railroad Map c.1888 – Mountain State Counties & Towns
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-24
Price: 515 USD
Availability: InStock

$515

€460 · dollar price at today's exchange rate

Buy now Ask a question

Shipping to the United States: $51 standard, $73 express, insured and tracked.

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 crease. Clean margins with only minor handling marks. Plate mark visible. Strong impression with crisp engraved detail.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: West Virginia
Reference: BG-12794-24

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

West Virginia in c.1888, an original map by Rand, McNally & Co. printed in black on toned paper with railroad lines overprinted in red. The running head "Rand, McNally & Co.'s West Virginia" appears across the top between atlas page numbers 200 and 201, and a title panel at the lower right reads "Rand, McNally & Co.'s New Map of West Virginia."

The state is drawn with its counties, and its irregular outline follows the Ohio River on the west and north. The ridges of the Allegheny and Appalachian mountains are hachured across the eastern part, and rivers run down through them. Railroad lines follow the river valleys and cross the northern part of the state, and Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio are lettered at the edges. An inset at the lower right, lettered "Northern Portion of West Virginia," shows the Panhandle along the Ohio River at a larger scale.

The state had been admitted to the Union in 1863, and the sheet shows it a generation later, with the railroads opening the coalfields and timber country of its mountain interior.

★