City of Galveston Texas: Gray 1884

Title: City of Galveston Texas Author: O. W. Gray & Son Date: 1884 Medium: Hand-colored engraving Condition: Very Good - age toning, wear along issued center fold, light foxing, minor paper loss in left and right margins at fold Inches: 24 1/4 x 15 3/4 [Paper] Centimeters: 61.6 x 40.1 [Paper] Product ID: 313015 Very rare map of Galveston, Texas. Fine 1884 pre-hurricane Galveston, Texas map from O.W. Gray's scarce National Atlas. Drawn by Frank Gray, this piece was published in the period between the Civil War and the devastating storm of 1900, a time of reconstruction and expansion for Galveston and the South as a whole. This map, one of the most decorative nineteenth-century maps ever drawn of Galveston, contains immense detail, showing many almost-forgotten features of the city. The depictions of public buildings, railroads, and street railways are especially interesting. In the 1880's, O.W. Gray & Son regularly published atlases of the world with a focus on t