Forth Worth, Texas, 1891 – 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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Step back in time with Forth Worth, Texas, 1891, an antique map rich in period 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: Perspective map of Fort Worth, Tex. 1891
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Forth Worth, Texas, 1891
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Fort Worth, Texas, in 1891 was a railroad and cattle town that had grown up around an army post founded in 1849 on a bluff above the Trinity River. The Texas and Pacific Railway reached the town in 1876, and the rail lines brought in the shipping business that turned the place into a stop on the cattle trade. Stockyards on the north side handled herds bound for markets farther east, and cowboys, drovers, and freight men filled the saloons and boarding houses near the tracks. The Hell's Half Acre district, a rough strip of gambling halls and dance houses, drew both admiration and complaints from the respectable families who were building churches, schools, and brick commercial blocks downtown. Residents in 1891 would have known their town as the place where the cattle trail met the railroad.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | american publishing co. (milwaukee, wis.), wellge, h. (henry) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Forth Worth, Texas, 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--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,296 × 6,125 px · prints to 34 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Perspective map of Fort Worth, Tex. 1891 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490920 |
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