Coldwater, Michigan, 1868 – 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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Coldwater, Michigan, 1868 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 the city of Coldwater, Branch Co., Michigan
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Coldwater, Michigan, 1868
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Coldwater, the county seat of Branch County in south-central Michigan, was a farm trading town in 1868, and the view it shows was drawn only a few years after the Civil War ended. The Michigan Central Railroad's main line from Detroit to Chicago ran through the town, which let farmers ship wheat, wool, and livestock out and brought manufactured goods in. Local shops and factories were turning out wagons and carriages, and the courthouse, churches, schools, and commercial blocks around the public square were the center of civic life. Residents who looked at a map like this would have recognized their own streets, lots, and rail yards as the working core of a county still largely settled by farm families.
| Created / published | 1868 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Coldwater, Michigan, drawn in 1868. 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--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,928 × 6,432 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of the city of Coldwater, Branch Co., Michigan |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489188 |
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