Chicago, Illinois, 1892 – Antique Map Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Chicago, Illinois, 1892. 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 Chicago, 1892
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Chicago, Illinois, 1892
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Chicago in 1892 was a city of more than a million people, busy with construction on the lakefront in Jackson Park, where crews were shaping the grounds and buildings for the World's Columbian Exposition. Daniel H. Burnham, the fair's chief of construction, directed a work force that drew carpenters, plasterers, and laborers from across the city's crowded working-class wards. That June the Democratic National Convention met in Chicago and nominated Grover Cleveland for president, placing the city at the center of national politics for a few weeks. Meanwhile the meatpacking houses, grain elevators, and rail yards kept the local economy running, and the German, Irish, Bohemian, and Polish neighborhoods on the north, west, and south sides were preparing for the crowds the fair would bring.
| Created / published | 1892 |
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| Creator | roy, peter |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Chicago, Illinois, 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--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,904 × 5,648 px · prints to 33 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Chicago, 1892 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488570 |
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