Lexington, Kentucky, 1871 – 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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A window into the past: Lexington, Kentucky, 1871, 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: Bird's eye view of the city of Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1871
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Lexington, Kentucky, 1871
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Lexington, Kentucky, in 1871 was a Bluegrass town whose wealth came from the land around it. Hemp had made its name, and rope and bagging works near the rail lines turned the fiber into goods sold across the South, while tobacco warehouses and horse farms on the edge of town supplied other families with work. Several railroads linked the city to larger markets, and Transylvania University, founded in 1780, still drew students to its campus. The Civil War had divided Kentucky's loyalties only a few years earlier, and in 1865 the state chose Lexington as the site of a new agricultural and mechanical college, which later grew into the University of Kentucky.
| Created / published | 1871 |
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| Creator | ehrgott & krebs, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Lexington, 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 | 8,800 × 6,944 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1871 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488831 |
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