Omaha, Nebraska, 1906 – 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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Omaha, Nebraska, 1906 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Panoramic view of Omaha
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Omaha, Nebraska, 1906
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Omaha in 1906 was a city of roughly 100,000 people, built on the railroads and river trade, and by then its economy leaned heavily on livestock and meatpacking. Just south of the city, the Union Stock Yards and the packing houses at South Omaha, which remained a separate town until annexation in 1915, shipped beef and pork across the country. Downtown, insurance firms, wholesale houses, and banks filled brick blocks along Farnam and Douglas streets, while the Ak-Sar-Ben, a civic and social organization, staged its annual coronation balls. Residents knew Omaha as a meatpacking and wholesale center whose fortunes rose and fell with cattle prices and the grain trade.
| Created / published | 1906 |
|---|---|
| Creator | austen, edward j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Omaha, Nebraska, drawn in 1906. 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 | 10,080 × 5,808 px · prints to 34 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic view of Omaha |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489598 |
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