Lot 578
[WALL MAP OF THE STATE OF TEXAS] Published by the International and Great Northern Railroad, 1878, printed by Rand McNally & Co., Chicago engraved, color printed, showing rivers, counties, cities, towns, and railroads, highlighting the lines of the International and Great Northern Railroad, and depicting various train stops, and including distances between them, some loss, professional restoration. E3000- 5000 Note: Rand McNally & Company started as William H. Rand's Chicago print shop in 1856. They entered the burgeoning railroad industry with the printing of tickets, and soon expanded into annual reports and timetables. By 1871, they adopted the technique of wax engraving which enabled them to meet the enormous demand for maps created by the boom in rail travel. Reference: Ristow, Walter W. American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985. pp. 467-480.
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