Durham, North Carolina, 1891 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Durham, North Carolina, 1891. 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 Durham, North Carolina 1891
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Durham, North Carolina, 1891
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Durham, North Carolina, in 1891 was a railroad town that had grown fast on tobacco. Washington Duke and his sons had built a large manufacturing business there, and the Bull Durham brand was known across the country. Factories, warehouses, and curing barns clustered near the rail lines that linked the town to Raleigh, Greensboro, and points beyond, so the depot and the tobacco district formed the working heart of the place. Residents of the day would have known Durham as a fast-growing industrial town in the Piedmont, one where a new fortune could be made in a few years and where the smoke of the factories was taken as a sign of prosperity.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | burleigh litho, ruger & stoner |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Durham, 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 | 9,552 × 5,408 px · prints to 32 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye view of the city of Durham, North Carolina 1891 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489526 |
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