Marshalltown, Iowa, 1868 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 Marshalltown, Iowa, 1868 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Marshalltown, Marshall Co., Iowa 1868
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Marshalltown, Iowa, 1868
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Marshalltown, the seat of Marshall County in central Iowa, was a young railroad town in 1868, having grown up only in the years since the rails reached the area. Trains carried corn, wheat, hogs, and other farm goods from the surrounding prairie to eastern markets, and mills, merchants, and small shops clustered along the tracks and the streets around the courthouse. The Civil War had ended only three years before, and many returning soldiers and new settlers were building homes on lots that had been open prairie within living memory. To the people who lived there, Marshalltown was above all a county market and a stop on the line, where wagons from the countryside met the trains.
| Created / published | 1868 |
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| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Marshalltown, Iowa, 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--Iowa |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,256 × 6,352 px · prints to 28 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Marshalltown, Marshall Co., Iowa 1868 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488393 |
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