Chicago, Illinois, 1874 – 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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Chicago, Illinois, 1874 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: The City of Chicago
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Chicago, Illinois, 1874
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Chicago in 1874 was still rebuilding from the 1871 fire and absorbing a financial shock. The Panic of 1873 began in September of that year, when the New York banking firm of Jay Cooke & Company failed, and within months building sites across the city had gone quiet. Carpenters, masons, and laborers who had helped replace the burned wooden blocks with brick and stone were laid off through the winter. Relief societies that had fed fire refugees turned their attention to the jobless. Grain and lumber still moved through the port and along the river, but at lower prices, so the city of this view was one whose growth had been fast, costly, and suddenly uncertain.
| Created / published | 1874 |
|---|---|
| Creator | parsons & atwater, currier & ives |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Chicago, Illinois, 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--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,200 × 7,200 px · prints to 34 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The City of Chicago |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488567 |
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