Ladonia, Texas, 1891 – 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 Ladonia, Texas, 1891 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas
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Ladonia, Texas, 1891
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Ladonia, Texas, as drawn in 1891, was a small farm town in Fannin County in the state's northeast corner, set on the blackland prairie not far from the Red River. Cotton and grain shaped nearly everything around it, and families hauled their bales and sacks to gins and rail points in the larger market towns for shipment. The 1890s were a hard decade for Texas farmers, when falling cotton prices fed the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party, movements with strong support in rural counties like this one. Residents would have known Ladonia as a community of churches, schoolhouses, and Saturday trading, where neighbors gathered for revivals and town business. The map records that settled, close-knit world at a moment when farm discontent was reaching the ballot box.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ladonia, 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 | 6,432 × 3,536 px · prints to 21 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490925 |
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