Battle Creek, Michigan, 1880 – 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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This antique map of Battle Creek, Michigan, 1880 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: [Bird's-eye-view of Battle Creek, Mich.]
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Battle Creek, Michigan, 1880
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Battle Creek in 1880 was a city of several thousand people in south-central Michigan, and the year coincided with the national census, which counted a steady rise in the state's towns as farmers' sons and daughters moved in for factory and shop work. Downtown was built up with brick commercial blocks, hotels, and churches, and the streets nearest the depot carried the bulk of the traffic. Surrounding farms still sent grain, livestock, and produce to the town's buyers, while the rail lines carried those goods to markets in Chicago and the East. People in the 1880s would have described the place as a practical railroad town on its way to becoming a regional center, with its pride tied to its schools, its congregations, and the new brick buildings going up along its main streets.
| Created / published | 1880 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Battle Creek, Michigan, drawn in 1880. 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--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 12,768 × 8,000 px · prints to 43 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Bird's-eye-view of Battle Creek, Mich.] |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489183 |
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