Kokomo, Indiana, 1868 – Antique Wall Map
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Kokomo, Indiana, 1868 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of the city of Kokomo, Howard Co., Indiana 1868
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Kokomo, Indiana, 1868
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Kokomo, Indiana, in 1868 was a young town in Howard County, still taking shape after the Civil War and growing around the railroad that ran through it. The Atlantic and Great Western line had reached the area in the mid-1860s, and it brought the grain, livestock, and lumber trade that drew farmers and merchants into the town's shops and streets. Kokomo took its name from a Miami chief, a fact that townspeople of the period would have carried as part of their local identity. Much of the town's later reputation, including its natural gas boom and its manufacturing, still lay decades ahead in 1868.
| Created / published | 1868 |
|---|---|
| Creator | merchant's lithographing company, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Kokomo, Indiana, drawn in 1868. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Indiana |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,240 × 6,480 px · prints to 27 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of the city of Kokomo, Howard Co., Indiana 1868 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488736 |
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