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Stock# 80702
Description
Detailed antique map of Nebraska, colored by counties and showing townships, roads, railroads, towns, etc., published by O.W. Gray in Philadelphia in 1876.
One of the earliest obtainable separate maps of Nebraska to appear in a commercial atlas.
The map includes detailed treatments of early railroad routes through the state.
Condition Description
Original hand-color by county.
O.W. Gray Biography
O. W. Gray was a publishing firm based in Philadelphia. Later, they published as O. W. Gray & Son. They published atlases in the late nineteenth century. Gray's National Atlas was one of the most successful commercial ventures of the 1870s and one of the last to employ hand coloring on maps.
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