The city of Chicago – Antique 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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures The city of Chicago in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The city of Chicago
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This bird's-eye view lithograph takes in Chicago's waterfront from a high, angled vantage point, so the shoreline, its piers and the crowded blocks behind them read together as one working city. Currier & Ives issued many such views in the early 1890s, when Chicago was rebuilt after the 1871 fire and was growing into the leading rail and grain hub of the Midwest. The print was published in New York, a reminder that these city portraits were sold to buyers across the country who had never seen the place. Its colors and fine detail make it a useful record of how the city presented itself just before the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1892. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1208. |
| Subjects | Waterfronts--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900. Chicago (Ill.)--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,449 × 1,158 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216228 |
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