Houston, Texas, 1912 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Houston, Texas, 1912. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Houston--a modern city
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Houston, Texas, 1912
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Houston had grown to about 78,800 people by the 1910 census, and in 1912 its downtown was filling with office buildings, hotels and wholesale houses that supplied the farm counties around the city. That autumn the Rice Institute, endowed by the estate of William Marsh Rice, opened its first classes, giving the city a school of engineering and science for the first time. Oil money from the Texas fields was beginning to move through Houston banks and offices, and local merchants sold drilling equipment and supplies to the new boomtowns. Residents also watched the ship channel slowly take shape and rode the streetcars that carried clerks and mill hands out to newer neighborhoods.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hopkins & motter |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Houston, Texas, drawn in 1912. 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 | 6,744 × 5,248 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Houston--a modern city |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490924 |
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