Antique State Maps 1904 Pac NW--Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska VG

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Antique State Maps 1904 Pac NW--Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska VG
This listing includes:
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska
If framed, these would make a nice wall grouping for a Seahawks fan's man cave. Really, who else do the fans in Oregon and Alaska have that's close enough to root for?
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hese maps measure 6 1/2 by 9 1/4 inches and are in VG condition. They were removed from a 1904 atlas. The price is .50 each, listed in geographically sensible groups.  I will combine shipping on these groups; no matter how many you buy, the postage will still be .85. Just pick which ones you want and send me a message so I can adjust the shipping.
Some of the states, you will notice, show the grid of ranges that have been surveyed by the USGS. I am surprised at the level of detail in many of these. I am old with failing vision, so I have to use my magnifier from time to time, but every time I look at some of these old maps, I find something of interest that I didn't know before. And I also regard cartography as an art, not just a science.
These old maps have many place names that no longer appear on modern maps, and therein lies their value and their allure. I wore out some old maps of Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas hunting down old settlements and mining camps. In many if not most cases, the history of these places and the people who lived there is lost forever. Who wrote the history of Taft, Montana, a rip-roaring hell-on-wheels town at the end of the Great Northern Railroad that was burned to nothing by the great firestorm of 1910 that blazed through northern Idaho and western Montana, killing everything in its path that was too slow or too unlucky to get out of its way? No one did, or ever will, but we found its remains. I once found a map that showed the town my mother was born in, a town that didn't appear on any map published after 1920 that I ever found. I still have it framed on the wall of my home office.
Someone out there will find a gem, or several gems, on these old maps.
I ship these in a cardboard sandwich to protect them from any damage in transit.
Please save me as a seller for World War I, World War II, Western Americana, the Indian Wars, the fur trade, mountaineering, politics (mostly lefty), economics, travel, fiction, art, and an eclectic selection of science books, especially astronomy, cosmology, human origins, geology and archaeology. I don't have all categories listed all the time. I get a little long-winded when writing my descriptions, so I usually only get five or ten listings done on any given day.
Also, please be aware that we are not gouging you on shipping cost. Ebay takes a final value fee on every item we sell, of course, but they are also collecting the final value fee on shipping. Consequently, if we charge actual shipping cost, we lose 14.55% on shipping. So we add about 15% to cover Ebay’s cut.
Please be aware that I am disabled with limited support resources (and also in a high-risk demographic relative to our current pandemic) and can only make it to the Post Office once a week, usually on Tuesday or Wednesday.