Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1871 – 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 Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1871 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky 1871
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Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1871
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Bowling Green, the seat of Warren County in south-central Kentucky, sat on the Barren River in 1871, only a few years after the Civil War had moved through it. Confederate and then Union forces both occupied the town during the war, and by the early 1870s residents were rebuilding stores, churches and homes around the courthouse square. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad ran through the town, linking the farms of the surrounding county with larger markets, and agriculture, especially tobacco and grain, supported most local trade. A view of the town that year shows a community still recovering from a hard decade and looking toward growth along its rail line.
| Created / published | 1871 |
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| Creator | chicago lithographing co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bowling Green, Kentucky, drawn in 1871. 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 | 8,448 × 6,912 px · prints to 28 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky 1871 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488827 |
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