Map of Palestine Anderson County Texas: Gray 1884

Title: Map of Palestine Anderson County 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: 313016 Map of Palestine, Texas from O.W. Gray's scarce National Atlas. In the 1880's, O.W. Gray & Son regularly published atlases of the world with a focus on the United States. Representatives of the firm traveled across the country to sell atlas subscriptions with an interesting pitch: subscribers who paid in advance would have their property or business labelled on the map of their city. Gray made sure to include in these maps the prominent families and citizens of note belonging to each city. The local editions of Gray’s atlas maps rarely come to market.   From O.W. Grays’s THE NATIONAL ATLAS : CONTAINING ELABORATE TOPOGRAPHICAL MAPS OF THE UN