Davenport, Iowa, 1875 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Davenport, Iowa, 1875 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Davenport, Iowa, 1875
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In 1875 Davenport, Iowa, was a river city of roughly 20,000 people on the west bank of the Mississippi, facing Rock Island, Illinois, across the water. The Rock Island Bridge, completed in 1856, tied the two shores together, and steamboats, grain, lumber and rail freight kept the levee busy. Many residents were German-born or the children of German immigrants, and their breweries, singing societies and turnverein halls gave the city a distinct social life. The country was still feeling the effects of the Panic of 1873, which had slowed building and hiring across the Midwest. A map of this kind would have been a source of civic pride for the families who saw their own houses, churches and business blocks drawn into the town's street grid.
| Created / published | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Davenport, Iowa, drawn in 1875. 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--Iowa |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 5,128 × 3,984 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488379 |
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