Nashville, Tennessee, 1897 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Nashville, Tennessee, 1897. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Tennessee Centennial Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee, 1897
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Nashville, Tennessee, 1897
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Nashville in 1897 was the Tennessee capital and a river port and rail hub on the Cumberland River, and that year the city hosted the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, marking a century since Tennessee became a state in 1796. Visitors crossed the city to Centennial Park, where a full-size replica of the Parthenon had been built for the fair. Nashville was also a center of learning, home to Fisk University, founded in 1866 to educate formerly enslaved people, and Vanderbilt University, which opened in 1875. Steamboats still worked the Cumberland, while railroads carried tobacco, cotton, and flour out of the city, and warehouses, church spires, and the capitol on its hill defined the skyline residents knew.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Nashville, Tennessee, drawn in 1897. 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--Tennessee |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 13,823 × 9,440 px · prints to 46 × 31 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Tennessee Centennial Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee, 1897 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490894 |
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