Lincoln, Nebraska, 1889 – 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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Lincoln, Nebraska, 1889 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Lincoln, Neb., State capitol of Nebraska, county seat of Lancaster Co. 1889
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Lincoln, Nebraska, 1889
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Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1889 was a prairie town that had grown rapidly since lawmakers chose it as the state capital in 1867. The University of Nebraska, which opened in 1869, gave the town a second center of civic life alongside the government buildings. The Burlington railroad reached Lincoln in 1870, and rail lines carried grain and livestock from surrounding farms to market. The late 1880s brought a building boom, and the 1890 census would count roughly 55,000 residents, filling the streets with new houses, churches and business blocks. Residents knew their city as the seat of state government and a university town, a place where the capitol and the campus defined its ambitions.
| Created / published | 1889 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), american publishing co. (milwaukee, wis.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Lincoln, Nebraska, drawn in 1889. 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--Nebraska |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,032 × 6,912 px · prints to 33 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Lincoln, Neb., State capitol of Nebraska, county seat of Lancaster Co. 1889 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489594 |
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