NC Durham 1891 MAP – Antique Map Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: NC Durham 1891 MAP, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye view of the city of Durham, North Carolina 1891
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NC Durham 1891 MAP
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Durham was one of the fastest-growing tobacco towns in the South during the 1880s and early 1890s, and this 1891 bird's-eye view records that boom at its height. Panoramic maps like this one were drawn from an imagined vantage point high above the town, so streets, rail lines, and factory districts appear in sweeping perspective rather than on a flat plan. The town's economy rested on tobacco, and the manufacturing works that processed it drew workers and investment to the area in these years. The map was produced by the firm of Ruger & Stoner and printed by the Burleigh lithographic shop, a pairing typical of the commercial map trade of the period.
| Created / published | 1891 |
|---|---|
| Creator | burleigh litho, ruger & stoner |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,776 × 2,704 px · prints to 16 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye view of the city of Durham, North Carolina 1891 |
| Reference | NC-Durham-1891 |
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