The City of Alton, Illinois, 1908 – Antique Photo 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.)
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This historic image of The City of Alton, Illinois, 1908 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: The city of Alton, Illinois
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The City of Alton, Illinois, 1908
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Alton, Illinois, sat on the bluffs above the Mississippi River in 1908, a short distance upriver from St. Louis, and its economy rested on river trade, rail lines, and factories. The Chicago and Alton Railroad was headquartered there, and the city's glass works and the Western Cartridge Company's ammunition plant gave many families steady wages. Alton also carried a heavier past: the abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy was killed there in 1837 when a mob destroyed his press, and the Lincoln-Douglas debate was held in the city in 1858. Residents in 1908 would have known Alton as a manufacturing and river town with a long memory of those events, a place where its mills, rail yards, and riverfront defined daily life.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | wiseman, w. h. (william h.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 552 px · prints to 18 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The city of Alton, Illinois |
| Reference | IL The City of Alton, 1908 |
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