1869Kansas City, Missouri

Bird’s eye view of Kansas City, Missouri. Jan’y. 1869

A. Ruger, drawn; A. C. Christy credited on the sheet as photographer; Merchant’s Lithographing Company; Ruger & Stoner.

Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph

Bird’s eye view of Kansas City, Missouri. Jan’y. 1869, 1869. A. Ruger, drawn; A. C. Christy credited on the sheet as photographer; Merchant’s Lithographing Company; Ruger & Stoner.. Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph. — 1869·Kansas City, Missouri
Bird’s eye view of Kansas City, Missouri. Jan’y. 1869
A. Ruger, drawn; A. C. Christy credited on the sheet as photographer; Merchant’s Lithographing Company; Ruger & Stoner.
Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph

What this plate shows

Kansas City in January 1869, drawn as a bird’s-eye: river bend, levee, a compact grid climbing the bluff. The sheet credits a photograph by A. C. Christy. What is filed here is the lithographed perspective, not an aerial photograph. Do not treat the credit line as a change of image type.

Image type: Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
Source: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, panoramic maps, item 73693480. Direct scale of that raster. Not a redraw.
License: Public domain.

Collections where this plate appears

01U.S. bird’s-eye viewsGiant lithographs from an imagined high point. Not photographs. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Denver — as print shops sold them. Later sheets stay later. Added beside those, not in place of them: Annapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Louisville, Seattle, Leadville, Pittsburgh.