Davenport, Iowa, 1888 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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This rare antique map captures Davenport, Iowa, 1888 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Davenport, Ia. 1888
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Davenport, Iowa, 1888
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Davenport in 1888 was a Mississippi River city whose economy rested on river commerce and the lumber trade, which drew logs downstream and turned them into boards and building stock in mills along the levee. Wholesale houses and railroad yards handled goods moving between the Iowa farm country and eastern markets, and the town kept growing outward from its older core. Residents that year were also following the national contest in which Benjamin Harrison defeated Grover Cleveland, and local newspapers covered it closely. A street-by-street view like this one would have shown many people the blocks where they worked, traded and worshipped.
| Created / published | 1888 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), american publishing co. (milwaukee, wis.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Davenport, Iowa, drawn in 1888. 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--Iowa |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,392 × 3,800 px · prints to 21 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Davenport, Ia. 1888 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488380 |
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