Childress, Texas, 1890 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Childress, Texas, 1890 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Childress, Texas 1890
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Childress, Texas, 1890
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Childress, Texas, in 1890 was a young railroad town on the Texas Panhandle plains, only a few years old and still taking shape. It had been laid out along the line of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway in the late 1880s, when the open range was giving way to fenced pastures and the first farms. Cattle ranching still dominated the surrounding country, and cowhands, freight wagons, and cattle shipments tied the town to the railhead. Childress was named for George Campbell Childress, the lawyer who wrote the Texas Declaration of Independence, and it became the seat of the newly organized Childress County. Residents would have known it as a frontier stop where the rail line met the grasslands, and the streets, depot, and business blocks reflected a community that was still deciding what it would become.
| Created / published | 1890 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Childress, Texas, drawn in 1890. 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 | 5,888 × 4,160 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Childress, Texas 1890 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490915 |
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