Richmond, Indiana, 1884 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Richmond, Indiana, 1884, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: The city of Richmond, Indiana 1884
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Richmond, Indiana, 1884
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In 1884 Richmond, Indiana, was a manufacturing town of the Whitewater Valley in Wayne County, near the Ohio line. Its factories made threshing machines and steam engines, most notably at Gaar, Scott & Company, and the Starr Piano Company was building instruments that sold well beyond Indiana. Railroad connections carried these goods out and brought in raw materials, and the town's population had grown steadily on the strength of this work. Richmond also remained shaped by its Quaker founders, whose meetinghouses and schools, including Earlham College, gave the place a strong sense of civic and religious identity that residents would have counted as part of its character.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co, downs, a. e. (albert e.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Richmond, Indiana, drawn in 1884. 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 | 12,240 × 8,848 px · prints to 41 × 29 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The city of Richmond, Indiana 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488741 |
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