Toronto, Ohio, 1899 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Toronto, Ohio, 1899. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Toronto, Ohio 1899
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Toronto, Ohio, 1899
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Toronto, Ohio, sits on the Ohio River in Jefferson County, a few miles south of Steubenville, and in 1899 it was a working river town. The surrounding county drew its living from coal, iron and steel, and river trade, and the Ohio River carried barges and steamboats past the town's landings. Rail lines ran along the valley, linking the mills and mines to markets east and west. Residents of the period would have known Toronto as a place of plant shifts, church and lodge life, and a Main Street that served the river and the factories beyond it. The map records that town as it stood at the close of the nineteenth century, just before the new century brought further changes to the valley's industries.
| Created / published | 1899 |
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| Creator | downs, a. e. (albert e.), moyer, james b. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Toronto, Ohio, drawn in 1899. 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 | 10,592 × 6,624 px · prints to 35 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Toronto, Ohio 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490291 |
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