Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1883 – 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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A window into the past: Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1883, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Kalamazoo, Mich. 1883
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1883
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Kalamazoo in 1883 was a county seat in southwestern Michigan, with its civic life centered on Bronson Park and the courthouse square. The Michigan Asylum for the Insane, opened on the town's edge in 1859, was among the largest employers in the area, and its staff and patients were familiar figures on local streets. Residents also knew the town for its churches, its lively downtown blocks, and the Kalamazoo River that ran through the settlement. The map records a community on the verge of incorporating as a city, with its streets, churches, and public buildings laid out as they stood that year.
| Created / published | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), beck & pauli, poole, a. f., stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Kalamazoo, Michigan, drawn in 1883. 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--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,200 × 7,056 px · prints to 31 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Kalamazoo, Mich. 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489201 |
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