Greencastle, Indiana, 1886 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Greencastle, Indiana, 1886 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Greencastle, Indiana, 1886
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In 1886 Greencastle, the seat of Putnam County in west-central Indiana, was a small college town built around its courthouse square and the campus of DePauw University, which had taken that name only two years earlier in honor of Washington C. DePauw's benefactions. Farming, grain and livestock trade, and the coal and clay country to the south gave the surrounding county its economic base, while rail lines tied the town to larger markets and made it easier for students and goods to arrive. The university's buildings and church spires would have been the town's most visible marks of ambition, and residents would have known Greencastle first as a place of schools, churches, and county business. A map of this kind shows the town as it stood at that moment, before the twentieth century's changes to its streets and industries.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Greencastle, Indiana, drawn in 1886. 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 |
| Original scan | 9,063 × 7,660 px · prints to 30 × 26 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488735 |
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