By Rand McNally & Co.
Located in Langweer, NL
Every county is named and coloured on this antique map of South Carolina, published by Rand McNally in 1899 in its indexed atlas, with Columbia marked at the centre as capital and Charleston on its harbour at the coast.
Charleston's peninsula between the Ashley and Cooper rivers is shown at the small scale the state plate allows. The Atlantic coastline runs in a shallow crescent along the bottom of the sheet, broken by the sounds and sea islands of the low country, while the upstate counties towards the Blue Ridge foothills in the northwest are drawn with the same county-by-county detail as the coastal plain.
A numbered key to roughly fifty railroad companies occupies part of the margin, matching a network that by the 1890s reached deep into the cotton-growing interior as well as the coastal ports, each line keyed by number to its operating company and printed in pink. County lines are printed in red over the pastel tints separating one county from the next, the convention used across the state plates...
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Antique Late 19th Century American Late Victorian Maps