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"View of the City of Lexington, Ky." panoramic map, 1857

Date

• 1857

Creator

• Middleton, Wallace & Co. of Cincinnati

Language

• English

Description

• Single sheet measuring 36 3/4" high x 46 1/2" wide - image block 32 1/2" x 42 1/2". Mechanically produced image reproduced as a black lithograph and is hand-tinted with watercolor. The paper sheet was applied to linen fabric for added body and structural reinforcement. Maps of the type which this 1857 view represents are called panoramic maps, bird's eye views, or perspective maps. The 1857 map looks from Maxwell Springs (Later the Judge James H. Mulligan property, and now part of the campus of the University of Kentucky) north toward the city of Lexington
• the scope extends westward toward the Lexington Cemetery and eastward to a line between James Irwin's "Woodlands" (included) and Henry Clay's residence, "Ashland" (not included). This 1857 Lexington panoramic map was acquired, probably in the 1920s and 1930s by Lexington collector ColL ouis Lee Haggin (1883-1935). It was purchased from a dealer's catalogue, and not from a local source. The map was the subject of a news feature, "Many Familiar Buildings May Be Located on 1857 Map of City," with a large illustration, in The Lexington Leader, 14 September 1939. At that time, the map had been photographed by Robert Long, owner of Lafayette Studios, who made black-and-white photographic prints of the map available from his shop. One of these prints was used to prepare the end-paper for Lancaster's Vestiges of the Venerable City: A Chronicle of Lexington, Kentucky.