Sandusky, Ohio, 1870 – 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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This antique map of Sandusky, Ohio, 1870 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye-view of the city of Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio 1870
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Sandusky, Ohio, 1870
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Sandusky, Ohio, in 1870 was a Lake Erie port at the head of its bay, and its waterfront and rail yards were the basis of its economy. Lake shipping carried grain, coal, and quarried limestone from the islands and the peninsula to the north and east, and the town's railroads linked it inland to Columbus and Cleveland. Vineyards on the nearby islands produced Catawba grapes for wine, and the lake trade made Sandusky a busy place for dock hands, shipwrights, and merchants. Only a few years earlier the bay had been home to the Johnson's Island prison for Confederate officers, a reminder of the Civil War that many residents had lived through. The street-by-street view below shows the town as its own citizens would have known it, with its commercial blocks, church spires, and houses running down toward the water.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner, chicago lithographing co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Sandusky, Ohio, drawn in 1870. 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 | 8,656 × 6,992 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye-view of the city of Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio 1870 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490286 |
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