Greensboro, North Carolina, 1891 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Greensboro, North Carolina, 1891 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: Bird's eye view of the city of Greensboro, North Carolina. 1891
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Greensboro, North Carolina, 1891
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Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1891 was the seat of Guilford County and a railroad town where the Richmond and Danville line ran through, making it a shipping point for cotton and other Piedmont produce. The Revolution Cotton Mill, opened in 1880, had already brought factory work to the town, and mills and warehouses were spreading along the tracks. Bennett College, a Methodist school for women founded in 1873, stood in the city, and the state's new agricultural and mechanical college for Black students opened there in 1891, the same year this view was drawn. Residents also took local pride in the Guilford Courthouse battlefield nearby, where the Revolutionary War battle of 1781 was remembered as a landmark of the region.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | burleigh litho, ruger & stoner |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Greensboro, North Carolina, 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--North Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,328 × 5,520 px · prints to 31 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Greensboro, North Carolina. 1891 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489527 |
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