New Salem, Illinois, 1909 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with New Salem, Illinois, 1909, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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New Salem, Illinois, 1909
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New Salem, Illinois, was a small Sangamon River village in Menard County where a young Abraham Lincoln clerked, ran a store, and studied law between 1831 and 1837. The settlement had already faded by the time of this 1909 view, after the river trade that once supported its mill and stores moved elsewhere. Residents of the surrounding farm country knew the village mainly as the place where Lincoln had started out, and a growing number of visitors came to see the old town site. Interest in preserving it grew in the early 1900s, and a campaign led by the writer Ida Tarbell helped draw public attention to the site before the state took it over.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of New Salem, Illinois, drawn in 1909. 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 |
| Original scan | 9,856 × 5,952 px · prints to 33 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488597 |
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