Chicago, Illinois, 1897 – Antique Wall Map
(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 antique map of Chicago, Illinois, 1897 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: All elevated trains in Chicago stop at the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Station, only one on the Loop
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Chicago, Illinois, 1897
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Chicago in 1897 was climbing out of the hard times that followed the Panic of 1893 and growing again on the strength of its rail and streetcar networks. Elevated railway lines were being linked into a loop around the downtown business district, and Charles T. Yerkes, whose companies controlled much of the city's street railway system, pressed for long franchise extensions in the City Council. The new Chicago Public Library building on Michigan Avenue, opened that year, showed how far the city had moved past its frontier beginnings. Residents would have known Chicago as a place where railroads, factories, and packinghouses fed a population that had grown past a million, and where the downtown seemed to change from one year to the next.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Creator | poole brothers, chicago, rock island and pacific railway company |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Chicago, Illinois, drawn in 1897. 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 | 9,457 × 8,549 px · prints to 32 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | All elevated trains in Chicago stop at the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Station, only one on the Loop |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488573 |
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