Jefferson, Ohio, 1901 – 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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Jefferson, Ohio, 1901 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Jefferson, Ohio 1901
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Jefferson, Ohio, 1901
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Jefferson, the county seat of Ashtabula County in northeastern Ohio, looked out over a countryside built on farming in 1901. Dairy herds, orchards, and vineyards supplied the surrounding farms, and many county families measured their year by the crops and the trips to the courthouse square. The county's larger economic engine lay about twenty miles north, where the Lake Erie ports at Ashtabula and Conneaut shipped iron ore and coal, and the rail lines that moved those goods shaped the freight and jobs of the wider region. Jefferson itself was a quieter place, its civic life centered on county government, churches, and local merchants. Residents of 1901 would have known the town as the seat of county justice and as a stop on the rural routes that tied the farms to the lake.
| Created / published | 1901 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Jefferson, Ohio, drawn in 1901. 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 | 6,760 × 4,240 px · prints to 23 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Jefferson, Ohio 1901 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490276 |
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