Paducah, Kentucky, 1889 – 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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A window into the past: Paducah, Kentucky, 1889, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Paducah, Kentucky 1889
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Paducah, Kentucky, 1889
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Paducah, Kentucky, in 1889 was a river and railroad town at the meeting of the Tennessee and Ohio rivers, and the seat of McCracken County. Tobacco was its commercial center, with warehouses handling leaf grown across the surrounding western Kentucky countryside. Steamboats on the Ohio and Tennessee carried freight and passengers, while the Illinois Central, which had reached the town in the 1850s, linked local merchants and shippers to markets as far away as Chicago and New Orleans. Mills, foundries, and tobacco factories employed many working residents, and churches, schools, and fraternal lodges shaped daily civic life.
| Created / published | 1889 |
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| Creator | postlethwaite, j. blanton, krebs lithographing company, cincinnati |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Paducah, Kentucky, drawn in 1889. 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--Kentucky |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 12,704 × 8,832 px · prints to 42 × 29 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Paducah, Kentucky 1889 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488837 |
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