Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1886 – 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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Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1886 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Chattanooga, county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee 1886
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1886
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By 1886 Chattanooga was in the middle of an industrial boom that was turning a river and railroad town into a city of furnaces, rolling mills, and coal yards. Coal hauled down from the Cumberland Plateau and iron ore from the surrounding ridges fed works along the Tennessee River, while rail lines crossing at the town carried in workers and capital from across the South and beyond. Brick commercial blocks were rising along Market Street, and the population had grown fast enough that new frame houses crowded the slopes beneath Missionary Ridge. Many residents still remembered the battles of 1863 fought on those same heights, yet they increasingly measured their town by the tonnage shipped and the furnaces blown in.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | norris, wellge & co, wellge, h. (henry), beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Chattanooga, Tennessee, drawn in 1886. 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--Tennessee |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,168 × 6,512 px · prints to 31 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Chattanooga, county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490885 |
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