Rand McNally “Porto Rico"

Rand McNally.  “Porto Rico.”  From Rand McNally Indexed Atlas. 

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1908.  9 ½ x 12 ½.  Color cereograph.  Very good condition.  

An early twentieth century map of Puerto Rico from the Rand, McNally & Co. firm out of Chicago, a company that would shift the center of cartographic publishing from the east coast to the mid-west.  Typical of the firm’s work, this map has very good detail precisely and neatly exhibited.  Aesthetically and cartographically, it epitomizes the Rand McNally maps of the twentieth century.