Kansas City, Missouri, 1869 – 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.)
Description
Kansas City, Missouri, 1869 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Kansas City, Missouri. Jan'y. 1869
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Kansas City, Missouri, 1869
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Kansas City, Missouri, in 1869 was a river town on the Missouri still recovering from the Civil War, when William Quantrill's guerrillas sacked it in 1863. Its trade had long rested on the levee, where steamboats unloaded goods bound for the plains, and wagon trains bound for Santa Fe and Oregon had passed through for decades. That year the Hannibal Bridge opened as the first railroad span across the Missouri at this point, linking the town to eastern lines and turning it into a rail crossing as well as a landing. Merchants, grain and livestock dealers, and freight men pressed for more track and warehouses, and residents thought of their town as the gateway to the West.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner, ruger, a., christy, a. c., merchant's lithographing company |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Kansas City, Missouri, drawn in 1869. 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 | 8,752 × 6,912 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Kansas City, Missouri. Jan'y. 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489393 |
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