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Map of the Main Portion of Brooklyn: Rand, McNally & Co. 1895

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  • Title: Map of the Main Portion of Brooklyn
  • Author: Rand McNally & Co.
  • Date: 1895
  • Medium: Wax engraving
  • Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, some areas of minor surface dirt
  • Inches: 14 x 11 1/4 [Paper]
  • Centimeters: 35.56 x 28.58 [Paper]
  • Product ID: 100679

Verso: Map of the Southern Portion of New York City

Map of Brooklyn, New York showing the East River, Prospect Park, Governors Island, and Gowanus Bay. Also features an inset titled Outline Map of Brooklyn.

In 1856, William H. Rand opened a Chicago print shop, hiring Irish immigrant Andrew McNally as a printer two years later. They established a relationship with the Chicago Tribune’s predecessor, soon taking over its printing operation in full. Eventually, in 1868 Rand, McNally, and Rand’s nephew George Amos Poole bought out the Tribune and founded Rand, McNally & Co. Now with significant printing experience under their belt, the three men embarked on several publishing endeavors, capitalizing on the massive success of Chicago’s railroad industry by printing tickets, timetables, and railroad guides. Rand, McNally & Co.’s cartographic enterprise began as an offshoot of their existing publishing business; it was not until 1872 that the company printed its first map, a wax engraving that appeared in the company’s December Railroad Guide. Thanks to the low cost and ease of production associated with wax engravings, the firm quickly became the largest commercial publisher in the United States and to this day continues to produce quality atlases, maps, and globes