Dallas, Texas, 1892 – 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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Dallas, Texas, 1892 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Dallas, Texas. With the projected river and navigation improvements viewed from above the sister city of Oak Cliff
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Dallas, Texas, 1892
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Dallas, Texas, in 1892 was a railroad and cotton town of roughly 40,000 people, with several lines converging on its downtown. Cotton from surrounding farms passed through local warehouses on its way to eastern mills, and that trade made the city the commercial center of North Texas. Merchants and bankers along Main Street were putting up brick commercial blocks, though many streets were still unpaved and horse-drawn traffic was common. Each autumn the State Fair of Texas, held on the city's edge, drew visitors from across the state to see its farm and manufactured goods. The town was growing fast and wanted to be seen as the region's leader.
| Created / published | 1892 |
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| Creator | dallas lith. co, giraud, paul |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Dallas, Texas, drawn in 1892. 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 | 8,544 × 6,032 px · prints to 28 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Dallas, Texas. With the projected river and navigation improvements viewed from above the sister city of Oak Cliff |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490917 |
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