Peru, Indiana, 1868 – 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 rare antique map captures Peru, Indiana, 1868 in remarkable detail. 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 Peru, Miami Co., Indiana 1868
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Peru, Indiana, 1868
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Peru, Indiana, in 1868 was the seat of Miami County, a town of several thousand people on the Wabash River, where the old Wabash and Erie Canal had brought trade and settlers in earlier decades. By the late 1860s, railroad lines were reshaping the local economy, and merchants, grain buyers, and manufacturers were tying the town more closely to Chicago, Toledo, and Indianapolis. The Miami people, whose homeland this had been, were removed from Indiana in 1846, so the streets drawn here were laid out on land that had changed hands only a generation before. Residents in 1868 were still rebuilding after the Civil War, and the courthouse square, church spires, and river wharves would have been the features they knew the town by.
| Created / published | 1868 |
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| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Peru, Indiana, drawn in 1868. 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, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,288 × 6,624 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Peru, Miami Co., Indiana 1868 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488740 |
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