Antique Ontario Map Wall Art – Lake Superior & Northern Ontario, ca.1888

€ 280

Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)

Date: 1888
Sheet size: 27.5 × 35.7 cm (10.8 × 14.1 in)
Condition: Good
Reference: BG-12794-75

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.

Condition

Even age toning throughout. Light edge wear and minor handling marks consistent with original atlas use. No major tears or losses; overall a clean and well-preserved example.

About this sheet

The northwestern part of Ontario on a page of Rand, McNally and Co.'s atlas, c.1888, with the title "North Western Part of Ontario" lettered in a scroll cartouche at the upper right. The map is printed in black.

Lake Superior fills the lower left center, its shore drawn in fine contour lines. Lake Nipigon and Lac Seul lie to the north, with Manitoba lettered at the left and Wisconsin and Michigan at the lower left. A railroad line runs along the north shore of the lake and continues northeast across the sheet. James Bay appears at the upper right, with the rivers running toward it, and the margin carries a lettered and numbered grid for finding places. A scale of statute miles sits under the cartouche.

The old description names Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay (Fort William and Port Arthur) and routes toward Hudson Bay. The sheet shows the region in the 1880s, when the new railroad opened the lakes and forests north of Superior to settlement and timber.