Amarillo, Texas, 1912 – Antique Wall Map
(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 Amarillo, 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: Aeroplane view of business district Amarillo, Texas
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Amarillo, Texas, 1912
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Amarillo, Texas, in 1912 was a young railroad town on the high plains of the Texas Panhandle. The Fort Worth and Denver City Railway had reached it in 1887, and that line turned a cluster of tents and frame buildings into a shipping point for cattle, wheat, and hides from the surrounding ranches and farms. The town had become the seat of Potter County, and its name, the Spanish word for "yellow," came from the color of the creek bank and soil nearby. Residents of the period would have known Amarillo as a place of stockyards, grain elevators, and new brick business blocks laid out along the rail lines, set against the open grassland of the Llano Estacado.
| Created / published | 1912 |
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| Creator | motter, e. e. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Amarillo, 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 | 6,160 × 5,440 px · prints to 21 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aeroplane view of business district Amarillo, Texas |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490914 |
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