Wolfe City, Texas, 1891 – 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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This rare antique map captures Wolfe City, Texas, 1891 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Wolfe City, Texas 1891
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Wolfe City, Texas, 1891
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Wolfe City, in Hunt County in northeast Texas, was a young farm town in 1891, and this bird's-eye view shows it at the height of the cotton economy that drove much of the region. Cotton, grown on the black and sandy loams of the surrounding blackland and farm country, was hauled to town for ginning, storage, and shipment by rail, and the stores, gins, and warehouses that served that trade gave the place its commercial character. Like many towns in north Texas, Wolfe City grew up around the railroad and its depot, and its streets were lined with churches, schools, and small businesses serving farm families who came in on weekends. Local residents in 1891 would have known the town as a farm trading center in a county whose economy rose and fell with cotton prices.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Wolfe City, Texas, drawn in 1891. 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 | 6,584 × 4,680 px · prints to 22 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Wolfe City, Texas 1891 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490930 |
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