Urbana, Illinois, 1869 – 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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A window into the past: Urbana, Illinois, 1869, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois 1869
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Urbana, Illinois, 1869
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Urbana, the seat of Champaign County in east central Illinois, was a small farm-market town in 1869, with an economy built on grain, livestock, and trade carried along the Illinois Central Railroad, which ran through the neighboring town of Champaign. The Illinois Industrial University, created under the federal Morrill land-grant act of 1862, had opened its first classes in Urbana in 1868, and it was still new in 1869. Residents would have known Urbana as a county courthouse town with churches, shops, and a young state college whose growth was an open question. Its later size and prominence were still unsettled.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Urbana, Illinois, drawn in 1869. 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 | 7,128 × 5,628 px · prints to 24 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488609 |
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