Pl. 17 Antique Chart of the US Population 1850 by Walker, 1874
€ 450
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Date
1850
Sheet size
55 × 41 cm (21.7 × 16.1 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-11875-12
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
General age-related toning, minor wear. Blank verso. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
The population of the United States in 1850, an original lithograph (Plate 17) from the Statistical Atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870, compiled by Francis A. Walker and published in 1874. The map is headed "The Progress of the Nation, 1850" at the top, with the map title "Map showing in five degrees of density the distribution, within the territory east of the 100th meridian, of the population of the United States (excluding Indians not taxed)" at the foot.
The sheet is a map of the eastern half of the country, from the Atlantic coast to the plains, with the Great Lakes, the British possessions to the north, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, and Cuba and the Bahamas drawn at the lower right. Population density is printed in graded purple tints that deepen toward the northeastern states and thin toward the frontier in the west, and a scale of density sits at the right. A star marks the center of population, and the later plates of the series show how it moved west.
The atlas turned the returns of the censuses into graphic form, and this is one of a run of density maps from 1790 on.
