Peoria, Illinois, 1867 – 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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Peoria, Illinois, 1867 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: Peoria, Illinois 1867
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Peoria, Illinois, 1867
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Peoria, Illinois, in 1867 was a river city of roughly 15,000 people, sitting on a bend of the Illinois River where grain, whiskey, and river freight met. Distilling was among its largest industries, and the grain trade that fed those distilleries shipped out by barge and by the rail lines that had reached the town in the 1850s and 1860s. The Civil War had ended only two years earlier, and returning soldiers joined a population of merchants, German and Irish laborers, and Yankee shopkeepers who were building churches, schools, and brick commercial blocks along the river. Residents would have known their town first as a market and distilling center, with the lake-to-river commerce of the Midwest running through its streets.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Peoria, Illinois, drawn in 1867. 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--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,736 × 6,864 px · prints to 36 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Peoria, Illinois 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488599 |
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