Tell City, Indiana, 1870 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Tell City, Indiana, 1870. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: View of Tell City, Perry County, Indiana : Praemie zum Tell City Anzeiger
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Tell City, Indiana, 1870
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Tell City, Indiana, in 1870 was a young German-speaking river town on the Ohio in Perry County, founded only about a dozen years earlier by immigrants who had arrived under the auspices of a cooperative colony. Its residents built their livelihood on the river and on woodworking, and the community was known for its German singing societies, gymnastic clubs, and schools, which kept the old language and customs alive in a frontier setting. Steamboat landings tied the town to Louisville, Evansville, and other river markets, and goods moved in and out by water long before the region had dependable rail links. The town was still establishing its streets, churches, and civic institutions during these years, so a map of this kind records a settlement that had recently been laid out from farmland and was still taking shape.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Creator | hinnen, a., strobridge & co. lith, bott, g. f. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Tell City, Indiana, 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--Indiana |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,904 × 6,896 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Tell City, Perry County, Indiana : Praemie zum Tell City Anzeiger |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488745 |
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