{"product_id":"antique-nevada-map-engraved-by-l-l-poates-eng-co-new-york-framed-c-1911-1930","title":"Antique Nevada Map, Engraved by L. L. Poates Eng. Co. New York, Framed, c. 1911–1930","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA hand-colored lithographed map of Nevada, framed behind glass in a linen-wrapped mat with a slim gilt fillet. The state is washed in soft yellow with pale green relief shading along the mountain ranges and blue for the lakes, and the whole surface is crowded with the fine black type of a working reference map — every railroad line, every siding, every camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReading it is the pleasure. Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Virginia City, Elko, Ely, Winnemucca and Tonopah are all here in heavy face — and so are hundreds of places that no longer exist. \u003cstrong\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/strong\u003e sits in the northeast, the irrigation colony that failed. \u003cstrong\u003eRhyolite\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBullfrog\u003c\/strong\u003e are marked near Beatty. \u003cstrong\u003eGoldfield\u003c\/strong\u003e is a major town. \u003cstrong\u003eLas Vegas\u003c\/strong\u003e appears as a small dot on a rail line in the far south, one name among many rather than the anchor of the state. Owens Lake and Tulare Lake are both shown full and blue in the California margin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sheet is page \u003cstrong\u003e114\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the plate is signed at lower left: \u003cstrong\u003eNEVADA, ENGRAVED BY L. L. POATES ENG. CO., N.Y.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Provenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eL. L. Poates Engraving Company\u003c\/strong\u003e of New York was among the significant American map engravers of the early twentieth century, supplying plates to atlas publishers for decades. This sheet comes from \u003cstrong\u003eThe Popular Atlas of the World\u003c\/strong\u003e, a blue pebbled-cloth volume with a gilt-stamped globe on the cover — the household atlas of its era, the book a family kept by the dictionary and consulted when the newspaper mentioned somewhere they'd never heard of. The atlas retains its original owner's inscription in ink on the front pastedown: \u003cstrong\u003eMercer, 140 Valleyview Dr., Dayton, O.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe map dates itself, if you read it carefully.\u003c\/strong\u003e Two features bracket it precisely:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/strong\u003e is shown, in northeastern Elko County. The town was founded in \u003cstrong\u003e1911\u003c\/strong\u003e as a promoted irrigation colony, lost its water rights in litigation, and emptied out over the following two decades. Its presence sets the earliest possible date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBoulder City and Lake Mead are absent.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Colorado runs unimpeded along the southeastern border. Hoover Dam construction began in \u003cstrong\u003e1931\u003c\/strong\u003e, Boulder City was founded that same year, and Lake Mead began filling in 1935. Their absence sets the latest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo more details support the range. \u003cstrong\u003eOwens Lake\u003c\/strong\u003e is shown as open blue water — the Los Angeles Aqueduct began draining it in 1913 and it was essentially dry by the mid-1920s. And the entire Bullfrog–Rhyolite–Goldfield–Tonopah mining district appears at full extent, the boom that defined Nevada between 1905 and the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is Nevada in the window between the mining rush and the dam — before Las Vegas was anything, when the state's center of gravity was still in the north.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003cthead\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eField\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eDetail\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/thead\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eObject\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFramed antique map\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOrigin\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eEngraved by L. L. Poates Eng. Co., New York; from The Popular Atlas of the World\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLithograph with applied color on paper; linen-wrapped mat, gilt fillet, wood frame, glazed\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDecoration\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHand-toned yellow, green, and blue; full rail and place-name detail\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eForm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSingle atlas sheet, page 114, framed and matted\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eEra\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ec. 1911–1930\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMarks\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePlate signed \"NEVADA — ENGRAVED BY L. L. POATES ENG. CO., N.Y.\"; sheet numbered 114\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCondition\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVery good. Paper toned warm with age and clean overall; color bright with no fading, foxing, or tears observed to the printed area. Edge wear and light soiling to the margins where the sheet was removed from the atlas binding, as expected. Presented as an atlas leaf, removed from the bound volume. Frame and glazing sound. Condition Guaranteed.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAvailability\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOne of a Kind — 1 Available\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy It Belongs in Your Home\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNevadans buy Nevada. An antique map of the state is one of the few pieces of art that is genuinely local, genuinely old, and immediately legible to anyone who lives here — every visitor walks up to it, finds Reno, and then starts looking for the towns that are gone. It hangs beautifully in an office, a study, a hallway, or above a bar, and the soft yellow-and-blue palette is easy against wood, plaster, or a dark painted wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt also makes an unusually good gift, and one that means something: for someone who moved here, someone who left, or anyone whose family has been in the state longer than the dam has.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viridian Eclection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933220716649,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/0093\/9369\/files\/IMG_2709.jpg?v=1787230810","url":"https:\/\/viridianeclection.com\/products\/antique-nevada-map-engraved-by-l-l-poates-eng-co-new-york-framed-c-1911-1930","provider":"Viridian Eclection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}