Louisville, Kentucky, 1876 – Antique Wall Map
(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 Louisville, Kentucky, 1876, 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: Bird's eye view of Louisville, Kentucky 1876
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Louisville, Kentucky, 1876
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Louisville, Kentucky, in 1876 was a river city of tobacco warehouses, distilleries, and rail yards along the south bank of the Ohio. Boats had to be worked around the Falls of the Ohio, and the canal cut around the rapids in the 1830s kept the wharves busy with cargo moving up and down the river. Tobacco shaped the waterfront most, with hogsheads rolled to warehouses and shipped out by steamboat and rail, while the Louisville and Nashville Railroad made the city a center for southern freight. Residents knew Louisville as a commercial hub in a border state still recovering from the Civil War, and the Kentucky Derby, first run in 1875, was becoming a local source of pride.
| Created / published | 1876 |
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| Creator | chicago lithographing co, charles shober & co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Louisville, Kentucky, drawn in 1876. 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--Kentucky |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,304 × 6,240 px · prints to 28 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Louisville, Kentucky 1876 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488832 |
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