Chicago, Illinois, 1916 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Chicago, Illinois, 1916 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Chicago, central business section
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Chicago, Illinois, 1916
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Chicago in 1916 was still recovering from the Eastland disaster of July 1915, when the excursion steamer capsized at its dock on the Chicago River and more than 800 people died, most of them Western Electric workers and their families headed to a company picnic. The city had grown past two million residents, and its stockyards, rail yards, and factories drew migrants from the rural South and from Europe. Under the 1909 Plan of Chicago, planners were reshaping the lakefront, and the Municipal Pier, opened that summer as a long wharf for ships and public recreation, showed how the city was turning toward the water. Black migrants from the South were settling in crowded districts on the South Side, where churches and newspapers were building new community life.
| Created / published | 1916 |
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| Creator | reincke, arno b. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Chicago, Illinois, drawn in 1916. 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 | 9,136 × 6,192 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Chicago, central business section |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488575 |
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