Kearney, Nebraska, 1889 – 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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Step back in time with Kearney, Nebraska, 1889, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Perspective map of the city of Kearney, Neb. county seat of Buffalo Co. 1889
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Kearney, Nebraska, 1889
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Kearney, Nebraska, in 1889 was a young railroad town on the Platte River, built around the Union Pacific line that ran across the central part of the state. The late 1880s brought a rush of settlers, speculation in town lots, and new brick business blocks around the courthouse square, while farmers in the surrounding counties worked to establish wheat, corn, and livestock operations on land that had been open prairie only a generation before. Rail traffic tied the town to Omaha and Denver, and grain elevators and lumber yards along the tracks handled the goods moving in and out. Nebraska's land boom was near its height that year, and the bust of the early 1890s had not yet arrived to test the town's ambitions.
| Created / published | 1889 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), american publishing co. (milwaukee, wis.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Kearney, Nebraska, drawn in 1889. 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--Nebraska |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 11,520 × 7,344 px · prints to 38 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Perspective map of the city of Kearney, Neb. county seat of Buffalo Co. 1889 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489593 |
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