Nashville 1896

Vintage map print — Nashville, Tennessee: the Tennessee Centennial Exposition grounds, drawn the year before the fair, 1896. Digital download; you print it.

A gift for anyone who calls Nashville home — delivered instantly, so it's never too late to give as a Christmas gift.

A restored 1896 bird's-eye view of Nashville, Tennessee: the Tennessee Centennial Exposition grounds, drawn the year before the fair. Shows the streets and buildings as the lithographer drew them. Scanned from the Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division, cleaned up for printing while keeping the original linework and labels.

You get 5 print-ready JPEG files at 300 DPI, the moment you buy:

• 8x10 in (2.7 MB)
• 11x14 in (5.2 MB)
• 16x20 in (10.8 MB)
• 18x24 in (15.2 MB)
• 24x36 in (16.2 MB) — re-encoded q80, pixels unchanged

Every size is a true 300 DPI from the original — nothing is enlarged.

Sourced from public-domain records. No modern additions. The original scan is free to download from the Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division; what you are paying for is the restoration and the sized, print-ready files.

How to print: any print shop, online printer, or at home. Ask for matte paper or a cotton rag if they offer it. The files are RGB at 300 DPI with the density tagged, so a shop will size them without asking.

Digital download only. Nothing ships in the mail, and there is no frame.

Drawn and published in 1896 by the Henderson Litho. Co. of Cincinnati, ahead of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition that opened in Nashville on May 1, 1897 — which is why the sheet is lettered 1897 while the Library of Congress dates the print 1896. Source record: Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division, item 77696328 (no known restrictions on publication).