Feature Points
- VINTAGE MAP CANVAS ART: You’ll love this high-quality canvas art reproduction of 1874 Syracuse NY Map Canvas. Our ready-to-hang maps are printed and framed in the USA by professional art framers using the highest quality materials. Each order is inspected for quality. This beautiful artwork is a perfect addition to your themed decor. Vintage maps look great in the home, study or office. They also make an unforgettable gift.
- A LOOK BACK AT HISTORY: This is an impressive, historic reproduction of 1874 Syracuse Map Canvas. A true piece of history. Historic prints beautifully link the past with the present. You may find yourself staring at your historic wall art for hours in amazement. See our product description section for more fascinating information about this historic map and its significance.
- QUALITY CANVAS: To display this amazing piece of history, we use museum-quality heavyweight (400gsm), satin/gloss, American made canvas. Our canvas is OBA-free which allows the print to retain its color quality for generations. The canvas displays vintage map art with accurate color reproduction. This high quality canvas print will be a wonderful addition to your vintage-themed wall.
- READY TO HANG: This high-quality canvas wrap wall art displays beautifully in almost any environment. The stretcher bar is made out of kiln-dried poplar wood. This canvas wall art has a 1.5 inch wrap on each side. Our canvas wrap prints are made-to-order in the USA by professional art framers. Frames arrive ready-to-hang, preinstalled with hanging hardware.
- HISTORIC PRINTS: We love history and art. Sometimes old maps have tears, folds, stamps, separations and other blemishes. We digitally restore and enhance maps while keeping its historical character. Customers all over the world love our historic prints and we know you will too.
Additional Information
Published by prolific American cartographer and publisher Howard Heston Bailey this panoramic bird's eye perspective of Syracuse, NY, depicts the city in a period of significant population and industrial growth. The Erie Canal had expanded access throughout the region, and salt mining and production was Syracuse's primary industrial export with the bulk of the salt consumed in the United States coming from the city. The city's population grew fifty percent in the decade following the conclusion of the American Civil War, with nearly fifty thousand residents by the end of the 1870s.
Bird's eye perspectives were produced to display civic pride in businesses and residents as well as to promote cities and increase the population. These productions often featured prominent government buildings, businesses, and other notable region features and possess a distinctive aesthetic that immediately transports the viewer back in time. They were enormously popular in the late nineteenth century and remained so until the 1920s. These unique illustrations were not created as technical map depictions but rather as promotional tools.
Syracuse has remained the educational and economic hub of central New York. The city had been a hotbed of abolitionist politics in the years leading up to the Civil War. While the city did see a decline in salt production following the Civil War, it was replaced by an increase in manufacturing, and new residents flocked to the city in search of prosperity. This bird's eye perspective is truly a unique piece of American cartographical history.
Our ready-to-hang canvas wall art prints are made in the USA using the highest quality materials with professional craftsmanship. This beautiful artwork is a perfect addition to your themed decor. Historic prints look great in the home, study or office. They also make an unforgettable gift.
