Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1907 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1907. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Griswold's birdseye view of the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana indexed for ready reference
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1907
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By 1907 Fort Wayne was an industrial city of several tens of thousands, and its factories and rail yards still ran on the natural gas that had drawn manufacturers in the boom of the late 1880s. The Pennsylvania and Wabash railroads kept large shops and yards in the city, and the electrical and foundry works that had grown up around them made machinery that went to markets across the country. Downtown, the courthouse and new public buildings stood among the commercial blocks, and the Carnegie library, opened in 1902, gave residents a reading room that was a source of civic pride. Streetcars carried workers between the mills and the neighborhoods on the city's edges, and most residents would have known Fort Wayne as a manufacturing town on the rail lines.
| Created / published | 1907 |
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| Creator | griswold, b. j. (bert joseph), hixon, w. w. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Fort Wayne, Indiana, drawn in 1907. 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 | 14,880 × 11,136 px · prints to 50 × 37 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Griswold's birdseye view of the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana indexed for ready reference |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488734 |
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