Cleveland, Ohio, 1887 – Antique Map Print
(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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Step back in time with Cleveland, Ohio, 1887, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Cleveland, Ohio
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Cleveland, Ohio, 1887
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By 1887 Cleveland had grown to roughly 160,000 people, and its industrial core stretched along the Cuyahoga in the Flats, where foundries, rolling mills, and boatyards ran alongside the river's bends. German, Irish, and Eastern European immigrants filled the mill districts and the working neighborhoods on the south side, while Hungarian and Bohemian families were settling in areas near the factories. Electric arc lighting, first shown on Public Square in the late 1870s, was spreading through the business district, and street railways were beginning their shift from horse-drawn cars to electric power. Residents of that decade knew Cleveland as a manufacturing city with a growing working population, and the political life of its wards turned on the same tensions between labor, employers, and newcomers that marked other Lake cities.
| Created / published | 1887 |
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| Creator | c.h. vogt & son |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Cleveland, Ohio, drawn in 1887. 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--Ohio |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,632 × 4,590 px · prints to 22 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490269 |
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