Harriman, Tennessee, 1892 – 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 Harriman, Tennessee, 1892, 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: Harriman, Tenn. 1892
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Harriman, Tennessee, 1892
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Harriman, Tennessee, in 1892 was a town only about three years old, laid out in 1889 by the East Tennessee Land Company as a planned industrial city in Roane County. The company named it for Walter Harriman, a former governor of New Hampshire who had been drawn into the venture, and promoters sold it to northern investors as a future center of iron, coal, and manufacturing in the Tennessee Valley. Lots, factories, and hotels were going up on streets that had been surveyed only recently, so a map of 1892 records a place still shaping itself. The national financial Panic of 1893 soon cut off investment and stalled the company's grand plans, leaving the town far smaller than its founders had promised.
| Created / published | 1892 |
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| Creator | burleigh litho, norris, george e. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Harriman, Tennessee, drawn in 1892. 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--Tennessee |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,936 × 6,736 px · prints to 33 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Harriman, Tenn. 1892 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490888 |
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