Mattoon, Illinois, 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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This rare antique map captures Mattoon, Illinois, 1884 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Mattoon, Illinois 1884
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Mattoon, Illinois, 1884
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Mattoon, in Coles County in east central Illinois, was in 1884 a young railroad town whose growth followed the tracks. Its position where major rail lines crossed made it a shipping point for grain, livestock, and goods moving between the prairie farms around it and larger markets. Warehouses, grain elevators, and shops clustered near the depots, and the residential streets grew outward from them as new workers and merchants arrived. Local residents in the 1880s would have known the town first for its trains and the commerce they carried, and civic life centered on churches, schools, and the business district that served the surrounding farm families.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | shober & carqueville, smith, j. wallis |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Mattoon, Illinois, 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--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,984 × 6,816 px · prints to 33 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Mattoon, Illinois 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488589 |
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