1889 Evening Star Map of Washington D.C.

A spectacular and scarce 1889 map of Washington D.C. issued for The Evening Star newspaper. The The Evening Star hired the photo-lithography firm of Bell Brothers to produce this appealing map to commentate the inauguration of Benjamin Harrison as the 23rd president of the United States. The map details and number each city block with important buildings and intersections identified numerically with an associated tabular legend in the lower left quadrant. The map further details the route of Harrison's inauguration parade from the Capitol to Washington Circle. The map additional identifies herdic (horse drown carriages or omnibuses), horse-car (horse drawn trams), and steam-car routes throughout the city. This map is extremely scarce. We identified only one other example, that one in flawed condition, on the market in the last 20 years. Only 9 examples recorded in the OCLC.