Hendersonville, North Carolina, 1913 – 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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A window into the past: Hendersonville, North Carolina, 1913, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Hendersonville, N.C. 1913
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Hendersonville, North Carolina, 1913
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In 1913, Hendersonville was a small county seat of roughly a few thousand residents, set in the Blue Ridge foothills of Henderson County, North Carolina. Its rail connection to Spartanburg and Asheville, which had been completed in the late 1870s, let residents ship goods out and bring visitors in, and the town's pace was set by the trains. Across the country that year, Woodrow Wilson took office in Washington and the new federal income tax was taking shape, news that reached the county mostly through weekly papers and the telegraph. Local people would have known the town as a quiet mountain seat where the courthouse, churches, and schools anchored daily life, and the land around it was still largely worked by farm families.
| Created / published | 1913 |
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| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer), fowler & browning |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Hendersonville, North Carolina, drawn in 1913. 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 | 9,552 × 6,512 px · prints to 32 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Hendersonville, N.C. 1913 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489528 |
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