Mount Sterling, Illinois, 1869 – 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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Step back in time with Mount Sterling, Illinois, 1869, 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: Birds eye view of Mount Sterling, Brown County, Illinois 1869
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Mount Sterling, Illinois, 1869
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Mount Sterling, the seat of Brown County in west-central Illinois, was still a farm market town in 1869, a few years after the Civil War. Grain, livestock and dairy goods from the surrounding prairie and timber moved through local merchants and wagon yards, and the railroads spreading across the state were reshaping which towns could ship produce cheaply. Brown County was overwhelmingly agricultural, so the courthouse square, the churches and the storefronts around it served as the center of civic and social life for farm families who came in on market days and court days. Residents would have known Mount Sterling as a county seat and trading place whose fortunes rose and fell with the harvest and with the rail lines that reached it or passed it by.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Mount Sterling, Illinois, drawn in 1869. 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--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,928 × 5,392 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Mount Sterling, Brown County, Illinois 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488594 |
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