Brookfield, 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Brookfield, Missouri, 1869. 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 Brookfield, Linn Co., Missouri 1869
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Brookfield, Missouri, 1869
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Brookfield, a railroad town in Linn County in north-central Missouri, was still young in 1869, its growth tied to the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, which had reached the place only about a decade earlier. The line's depot and repair shops drew machinists, brakemen, merchants and boardinghouse keepers, so the town grew through new stores and houses rather than through old family estates. Missouri was still working through the aftermath of the Civil War, and local politics in the late 1860s turned on loyalty oaths and who would hold power in a state government now reshaped by wartime divisions. To residents, Brookfield was a stop on the line between Hannibal and St. Joseph, where trains carried passengers, freight and news from the wider world.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Brookfield, 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 | 7,072 × 5,592 px · prints to 24 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Brookfield, Linn Co., Missouri 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489382 |
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