Knoxville, Tennessee, 1871 – 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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Knoxville, Tennessee, 1871 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee 1871
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Knoxville, Tennessee, 1871
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Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1871 was a river town of East Tennessee where the Holston and French Broad rivers join to form the Tennessee. Its position made it a rail junction, since lines linking Virginia and Georgia passed through the city, and its merchants shipped timber, farm produce, and mineral goods out along those routes. The city was still recovering from the Civil War, when Knoxville changed hands several times and was besieged in 1863, and its residents were divided between Unionist and Confederate loyalties. Politics in the early Reconstruction years centered on who would hold power in Knox County and the state, while churches, schools, and the young university on the hill shaped daily civic life. Residents of the period would have known the town as a commercial crossroads that had survived the war more intact than many of its neighbors.
| Created / published | 1871 |
|---|---|
| Creator | merchant's lithographing company, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Knoxville, Tennessee, drawn in 1871. 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 | 8,688 × 6,944 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee 1871 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490890 |
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