1876Louisville, Kentucky

Bird’s eye view of Louisville, Kentucky

A. Ruger; Charles Shober & Co.; Chicago Lithographing Co.

Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph

What this plate shows

Louisville drawn from the Ohio: the falls and the river in the foreground, the city climbing the bank, bridges and steam. A Ruger bird’s-eye of 1876. Not a photograph, and not Cincinnati.

Image type: Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
Source: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, panoramic maps, item 73693416. 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.