Western New York Antique Map – The Empire State, Railroads & Counties, c.1888

Name: Western New York Antique Map – The Empire State, Railroads & Counties, c.1888
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-19
Price: 515 USD
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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 even age toning and light wear along the original center fold. Plate mark visible. Margins clean with only minor handling marks. Strong impression with excellent engraved detail.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: New York
Reference: BG-12794-19

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

Western New York 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 Western New York" appears across the top between atlas page numbers 136 and 137.

The sheet covers the western part of the state from Lake Erie and Lake Ontario south to the Pennsylvania border. Buffalo lies at the eastern end of Lake Erie at the left, with the Niagara frontier and the Canadian counties of Welland and Lincoln across the river, and Toronto and Hamilton at the extreme upper left. The Finger Lakes run in long narrow bodies down the right side, and the counties of Erie, Wyoming, Monroe, Ontario, Yates, Steuben, Tompkins and Cortland are lettered across the plate. Railroad lines run in bands along the lake shore and through the southern tier.

The map shows the western end of the Erie Canal corridor and the lake ports as they were served by the railroads of the late 1880s.

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