Dallas, Texas, with the projected river and navigation improvements – Antique Wall Map
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This rare antique map captures Dallas, Texas, with the projected river and navigation improvements in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Dallas, Texas, with the projected river and navigation improvements
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Few town views of the period show a waterway that was still only a plan, but this 1892 bird's eye view of Dallas marks the projected river and navigation improvements on the Trinity alongside the city's streets and buildings. In the early 1890s, local boosters hoped to clear and deepen the Trinity so that barges and steamboats could reach the Gulf, a scheme that promised cheaper freight for a city growing quickly as a railroad hub. Maps like this one were drawn from an elevated oblique viewpoint to present a town as a promotional portrait, so the planned channel reads as much as a statement of ambition as a record of what existed.
| Created / published | 1892 |
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| Original scan | 1,800 × 1,271 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | TX Dallas 1892 |
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