Frankfort, Kentucky, 1871 – Vintage Map 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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This antique map of Frankfort, Kentucky, 1871 brings a moment of history to your wall. 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 Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky 1871
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Frankfort, Kentucky, 1871
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Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky, sat in 1871 in a narrow bend of the Kentucky River, with its streets rising from the water toward the State House. The town's livelihood rested on state government, the state penitentiary, and the distilling and milling that the river and the surrounding Bluegrass farmland supported. It was a small city of a few thousand people, and residents knew it as the seat of state affairs, with its legislators meeting in the old Capitol and its cemetery holding the grave of Daniel Boone. In the years after the Civil War, Kentucky's towns were working through deep political divisions, and Frankfort's civic life centered on rebuilding trade, schools, and churches while the state argued over its future.
| Created / published | 1871 |
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| Creator | ehrgott & krebs lith, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Frankfort, Kentucky, drawn in 1871. 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--Kentucky |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,776 × 6,992 px · prints to 26 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky 1871 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488830 |
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