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Bird's Eye Views:
Historic Lithographs of North American Cities
by John W. Reps
Copyright
1998, Princeton Architectural Press
115 pages, Hardcover, 13"x15"
From the front dust
jacket flap:
As new towns and cities spread across the American frontier in the 19th
century, itinerant artists soon followed, documenting these growing urban
centers by drawing aerial perspectives, also known as Bird's Eye Views.
Commissioned by land speculators, local businesses, civic organizations, and
individual citizens, these renderings fostered both civic pride and local
commerce. The use of color lithography, a recent invention popularized by
such prominent publishers as Currier & Ives, allowed the inexpensive
reproduction of the highest-quality drawings, so that a bird' eye view was
within the financial budget of even the smallest town. These
extraordinarily detailed lithographs eventually numbered in the thousands
and now serve as a rich pictorial record of North America as it stood a
century ago.
This sequel to our highly
acclaimed title An Atlas of Rare City Maps collects over 100 views dating
between 1838 and 1908, showing the streets, buildings, churches, bridges,
waterways, and surrounding countryside of North American towns, ranging from
burgeoning metropolitan centers to small logging towns and mining camps.
Baltimore, Denver, Indianapolis, Memphis, Montreal, New Orleans, Pittsburgh,
Seattle, Syracuse, and Washington are just a few of the cities presented in
this collection. The exquisite color and fine detail of these bird's eye
views have been reproduced in all their original glory and anointed with
interesting stories and facts; also included is an introduction by John W.
Reps providing a background on the artistic process of viewmaking and on
urban development in the 19th century.
From the back cover:
Featuring lithographed views of the following cities in the United States
and Canada:
East
New Haven (CT), Washington, D.C., Annapolis (MD), Baltimore (MD), Saco (ME),
Boston (MA), Gloucester (MA), Holyoke (MA), Newark (NJ), Ocean Grove (NJ),
Halifax (NS), Buffalo (NY), Cooperstown (NY), New York (NY), Syracuse (NY),
London (ON), Toronto (ON), Ford City (PA), Harrisburg (PA), Philadelphia
(PA), Pittsburgh (PA), Montreal (PQ), Quebec (PQ), Newport (RI)
South
Birmingham (AL), Little Rock (AR), Pensacola (FL), Jacksonville (FL),
Atlanta (GA), Savannah (GA), Lexington (KY), Louisville (KY), New Orleans
(LA), Raleigh (NC), Charleston (SC), Memphis (TN), Chattanooga (TN),
Alexandria (VA)
Midwest
Chicago (IL), Springfield (IL), Indianapolis (IN), South Bend (IN),
Davenport (IA), Dubuque (IA), Ann Arbor (MI), Minneapolis (MN), St. Paul
(MN), Hannibal (MO), St, Louis (MO), Cincinnati (OH), Cleveland (OH),
Columbus (OH), Sandusky (OH), Lacrosse (WI), Madison (WI), Milwaukee (WI)
Plains/Rockies
Colorado Springs (CO), Cripple Creek (CO), Denver (CO), Moscow (ID), Great
Bend (KS), Lawrence (KS), Winnipeg (MB), Helena (MT), Lincoln (NE), Omaha
(NE), Bismarck (ND), Oklahoma City (OK), Aberdeen (SD), Austin (TX), Fort
Worth (TX), Houston (TX), Salt Lake (UT), Cheyenne (WY)
West
Phoenix (AZ), Prescott (AZ), Vancouver (BC), Victoria (BC), Los Angeles
(CA), Shasta (CA), Sacramento (CA), San Diego (CA), San Francisco (CA), San
Jose (CA), Santa Barbara (CA), Reno (NV), Virginia City (NV), Albuquerque
(NM), Santa Fe (NM), Portland (OR), Seattle (WA), Dawson (YK)
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