Need a map 1890s USA

[Angel Tarragon]

Anyone know of a good place/site to find old maps that might be print worthy?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

bump.

 

[jasper]

old train maps check your local train store.

 

[GlassJaw]

Check out ebay - you'll be surprised how many people sell old maps. I was looking for maps of the Caribbean for our pirate campaign and the question wasn't I would be able to find one or not, it was what timeframe I wanted the map to be.

 

[rigur]

Maybe this will be of help.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=setlmap&action=browse&fileName=gmd370m/g3701m/g3701gm/gct00010/ct_browse.db&displayType=3&maxCols=3&recNum=0&itemLink=r?ammem/gmdfilreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(g3701gm+gct00010))+@field(COLLID+setlmap))&title2=Statistical%20atlas%20of%20the%20United%20States,%20based%20upon%20the%20results%20of%20the%20eleventh%20census%20by%20Henry%20Gannett.&linkText=Back+to+bibliographic+information

 

[Hand of Evil]

and http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html

 

[der_kluge]

Frukathka, what kind of 1890s game are you running? Gothic earth?

 

[rogueattorney]

What kind of information are you looking for?

Here's a map showing the results of the 1892 Presidential election:
http://www.authentichistory.com/images/postcivilwar/pcw_timeline/election1892.html

Here's 1896:
http://www.authentichistory.com/images/postcivilwar/pcw_timeline/election1896.html
McKinley was assassinated shortly thereafter, with Teddy Roosevelt becoming president.

You can see that Utah became a state sometime between the two elections, leaving Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma as the only territories in the "lower 48".

Alaska was also still a territory at the time and going through a bit of a gold rush. The U.S. fought the Spanish-American War around this time and took Puerto Rico, Guam and the Phillipines as colonies. The U.S. also got a hold of Hawaii at about the same time. We were able to engage in these overseas "adventures" because the constant internal "Indian Wars" had largely been won (or lost depending on your point of view) by the end of the 1880's.

Try Googling the U.S. census beaureu for info on demographics and population.

R.A.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Frukathka, what kind of 1890s game are you running? Gothic earth?

Yes, sir.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Google is good.

Here is a map of settled areas in 1890, warning, it is a file It shows urban centers, mines, forts, and camps and posts. Also indian villages.

Here is a link to a file that shows posts and battle sites between 1860 and 1890.

A great site to check for other historic maps of the US is here.

Good hunting!