Louisville, Kentucky, 1883 – 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.)
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Louisville, Kentucky, 1883 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Birds-eye view of Louisville from the river front and Southern Exposition, 1883
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Louisville, Kentucky, 1883
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Louisville in 1883 was still a river city, with steamboat wharves along the Ohio and rail lines carrying goods from the South to northern markets. That autumn the Southern Exposition opened in the city, a showcase for regional manufactures, farm products, and mechanical inventions that drew large crowds. Local factories turned out iron goods, furniture, and bourbon, while the population kept growing and new brick houses filled the blocks beyond the old center. Residents would have talked about the exposition, the new streetcar lines carrying them farther from downtown, and the steady arrival of workers looking for jobs in the mills and shops.
| Created / published | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Creator | clarke, w. f. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Louisville, Kentucky, drawn in 1883. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Kentucky |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,864 × 6,928 px · prints to 36 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds-eye view of Louisville from the river front and Southern Exposition, 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488833 |
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