Chicago, Illinois, 1890 – 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 Chicago, Illinois, 1890 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Rascher's birds eye view of the Chicago packing houses & union stock yards
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Chicago, Illinois, 1890
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Chicago in 1890 had passed one million residents, and the 1889 annexation of suburbs such as Hyde Park and Lake View pushed its limits far south and north along the lakeshore. The Auditorium Building, opened downtown in late 1889 with a theater and hotel under one roof, stood as a symbol of the city's ambitions. That year Congress chose Chicago to host the World's Columbian Exposition, the fair marking four centuries since Columbus reached the Americas, and planners turned their attention to the marshy lakefront in Jackson Park. Meanwhile, factories, packinghouses, and rail yards still drove the economy, and the crowded neighborhoods on the north, west, and south sides were home to large German, Irish, Polish, and Swedish communities.
| Created / published | 1890 |
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| Creator | rascher, charles |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Chicago, Illinois, drawn in 1890. 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--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 12,048 × 8,048 px · prints to 40 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Rascher's birds eye view of the Chicago packing houses & union stock yards |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488569 |
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