Waco, Texas, 1892 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Waco, Texas, 1892 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Waco, Texas 1892
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Waco, Texas, 1892
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Waco, Texas, in 1892 was a river town of the Brazos, where cotton grown on the surrounding blacklands moved through warehouses and gins to the railroads that had reached the city over the previous two decades. Its population had grown quickly, and the city counted among the larger trading centers in Central Texas. The Waco Suspension Bridge, completed across the Brazos in 1870, still linked the business district with the residential areas on the far bank. Baylor University had relocated to Waco in 1886, so the campus and its students added a distinct educational life to the town's commerce. Residents of the period would have known Waco as a cotton market, a rail junction, and a college town.
| Created / published | 1892 |
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| Creator | d.w. ensign & co, westyard, a. l. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Waco, Texas, 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--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 13,744 × 8,336 px · prints to 46 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Waco, Texas 1892 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490929 |
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