Kansas City, Missouri, 1895 – 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 Kansas City, Missouri, 1895. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Panoramic view of the west bottoms, Kansas City, Missouri & Kansas showing stock yards, packing & wholesale houses
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Kansas City, Missouri, 1895
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Kansas City, Missouri, in 1895 was a city of well over 100,000 people, far larger than the river town of the late 1860s. Its wealth rested on the livestock and grain trade, with commission men, packers, and railroad crews working the rail yards and the Board of Trade. Cable cars and new streetcar lines carried clerks and laborers out to neighborhoods on the bluffs, while the Kansas City Star, under editor William Rockhill Nelson, was read in homes across the city. Politics was dominated by the Democratic organization of Joseph Shannon, whose ward workers delivered votes for the city's party bosses. Residents knew their town as a market and rail center, and the streets drawn here are lined with freight houses, hotels, and wholesale blocks that served that trade.
| Created / published | 1895 |
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| Creator | koch, augustus |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Kansas City, Missouri, drawn in 1895. 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--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 15,264 × 9,856 px · prints to 51 × 33 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic view of the west bottoms, Kansas City, Missouri & Kansas showing stock yards, packing & wholesale houses |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489394 |
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