Dayton, Ohio, 1870 – 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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Dayton, Ohio, 1870 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: Dayton, Ohio 1870
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Dayton, Ohio, 1870
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Dayton, Ohio, in 1870 was a county seat of roughly 30,000 people where the Great Miami and Mad rivers meet, and its growth rested on mills, shops and the transport lines that connected it to wider markets. Carriage and wagon makers, woolen and flour mills, and the Barney and Smith car works sent goods across the Midwest by rail. The Miami and Erie Canal, completed in the 1840s, still carried freight from Cincinnati toward Lake Erie, while several railroads had made Dayton a regional junction. Residents knew it as a busy manufacturing town with a sizable German community and a commercial core along Main Street, where brick business blocks stood near church spires and residential avenues.
| Created / published | 1870 |
|---|---|
| Creator | merchant's lithographing company, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Dayton, Ohio, drawn in 1870. 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--Ohio |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,584 × 6,912 px · prints to 32 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Dayton, Ohio 1870 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490272 |
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