Aurora, Missouri, 1891 – 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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Aurora, Missouri, 1891 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Aurora, Missouri 1891
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Aurora, Missouri, 1891
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Aurora, a small town in Lawrence County in the Ozark foothills of southwest Missouri, was drawn in detail in 1891, when its economy still rested mainly on farming, livestock, and the timber cut from the surrounding hills. Most families in the county worked small farms and depended on local merchants, mills, and wagon roads to reach the markets in larger towns. Railroad lines had by then reached much of southwest Missouri and were changing how goods and people moved through the region, though a town of Aurora's size relied on its courthouse square, churches, and schools as the center of civic and social life. The map records these streets, storefronts, and houses as they stood at the close of the 1880s, a picture of a community whose residents knew it as a neighborly market town of the Ozarks.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Aurora, Missouri, drawn in 1891. 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--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,216 × 6,272 px · prints to 31 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aurora, Missouri 1891 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489381 |
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