Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1874 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1874 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Kalamazoo, Michigan 1874
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1874
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In 1874 Kalamazoo was a county seat and railroad town in southwestern Michigan, where the Michigan Central line ran through the center of the settlement and carried freight and passengers east and west. Its factories and workshops turned out carriages, wagons, and other wood and iron goods, and paper mills drew on the Kalamazoo River that gave the town its name. The country had entered a severe depression after the Panic of 1873, so local merchants and mill owners were watching orders and payrolls closely. Churches, schools, and the older Kalamazoo College on the town's edge gave residents a settled civic life. A map drawn at this moment preserves the streets and buildings of a community that was growing but still sure of its rail connections.
| Created / published | 1874 |
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| Creator | charles shober & co, ruger, a., stoner, j. j., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Kalamazoo, Michigan, drawn in 1874. 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--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,944 × 7,008 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Kalamazoo, Michigan 1874 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489200 |
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