Winston Salem, North Carolina, 1891 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Winston Salem, North Carolina, 1891. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye view of the twin cities, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 1891
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Winston Salem, North Carolina, 1891
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Winston-Salem as this 1891 view would have shown it was really two neighboring towns. Salem, founded by Moravian settlers in 1766, still kept its orderly brick streets and church-centered life, while Winston, the younger county seat of Forsyth County, had grown up around the courthouse and the railroad. By the early 1890s, tobacco manufacturing was becoming the town's main business, and the rail lines that carried leaf and finished goods to northern markets were shaping where new factories and warehouses went. Residents in both communities knew the place for its schools, including the Moravian academies in Salem, and for the steady rivalry and cooperation between the two towns. The two would not formally merge until 1913.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Winston Salem, North Carolina, drawn in 1891. 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--North Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,560 × 6,384 px · prints to 35 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye view of the twin cities, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 1891 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489536 |
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