Laredo, Texas, 1892 – Antique Map Print
(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: Laredo, Texas, 1892, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Perspective map of the city of Laredo, Texas, the Gateway to and from Mexico
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Laredo, Texas, 1892
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Laredo, Texas, in 1892 was a river town on the Rio Grande whose economy rested on trade across the border with Nuevo Laredo, in Mexico. Its population was largely of Mexican descent, and its families had lived on both banks for generations, long before Texas joined the United States. Railroads reached the town in 1881, linking it to Corpus Christi and to the wider rail network, and that connection carried cattle, hides, wool, and goods through a customs trade that made the city an important commercial point on the border. Residents of the period would have known Laredo as a crossing point, a place where the river divided two countries but daily commerce and family ties ran across it.
| Created / published | 1892 |
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| Creator | american publishing co. (milwaukee, wis.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Laredo, Texas, drawn in 1892. 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 | 10,576 × 6,912 px · prints to 35 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Perspective map of the city of Laredo, Texas, the Gateway to and from Mexico |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490926 |
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