The City of Chicago / sketched & drawn on stone by Parsons & Atwater. – Vintage 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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Step back in time with The City of Chicago / sketched & drawn on stone by Parsons & Atwater., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The City of Chicago / sketched & drawn on stone by Parsons & Atwater.
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Drawn as a bird's-eye view, this hand-colored lithograph shows Chicago from above at a time when the city was still rebuilding after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Parsons & Atwater sketched and drew the design on stone, and the New York firm Currier & Ives published it around 1874, when the company was producing many city views for a broad public. The large sheet lets viewers trace the layout of streets and the lakefront across the city. Because the color was added by hand, individual impressions vary somewhat from copy to copy.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 58 x 82.5 cm. (image with accompanying text) |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1870-1880.Cityscape prints 1870-1880.Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | 7715 1874 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Currier & Ives, New York. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1207 LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 149.2 |
| Subjects | Chicago (Ill.)--1870-1880.United States--Illinois--Chicago. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,089 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114857 |
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