Evansville, Indiana, 1888 – 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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Evansville, Indiana, 1888 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Perspective map of the city of Evansville, Ind. 1888
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Evansville, Indiana, 1888
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Evansville, Indiana, in 1888 was a river city on the Ohio, its waterfront shaped by steamboat traffic and warehouses handling tobacco, lumber, and grain. Rail lines had tied the city to Louisville, St. Louis, and points north, and mills and factories employed a growing share of its working population. Residents still remembered the Ohio River flood of 1884, which pushed water deep into the low streets near the levee and made the exposed riverfront a lasting concern. German immigrants formed a large part of the community, and their breweries, churches, and singing societies gave the city much of its social life. The town shown here stood on the edge of further industrial growth.
| Created / published | 1888 |
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| Creator | american publishing co. (milwaukee, wis.), wellge, h. (henry) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Evansville, Indiana, drawn in 1888. 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--Indiana |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,300 × 4,192 px · prints to 21 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Perspective map of the city of Evansville, Ind. 1888 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488732 |
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