Negaunee, Michigan, 1871 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Negaunee, Michigan, 1871 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Negaunee, Mich. 1871
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Negaunee, Michigan, 1871
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Negaunee, Michigan, in 1871 was a young iron-mining town on the Marquette Range in the Upper Peninsula, built around ore pits that had been opened only a few decades earlier. Iron from the range moved by rail to the harbor at Marquette on Lake Superior, and that link between mine and lake shipping shaped nearly everything about daily life in the settlement. Mining companies, shops, and the homes of miners and their families crowded the slopes above the workings, and the town's fortunes rose and fell with ore prices and shipping seasons. This view shows the streets and buildings as residents knew them, at a moment when the district was still establishing itself as one of the state's main sources of iron.
| Created / published | 1871 |
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| Creator | milwaukee lith. & engr. co, bailey, h. h. (howard heston), c.h. vogt (firm) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Negaunee, Michigan, drawn in 1871. 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 | 7,920 × 5,984 px · prints to 26 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Negaunee, Mich. 1871 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489211 |
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