Grand Haven, Michigan, 1868 – 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.)
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Grand Haven, Michigan, 1868 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of the city of Grand Haven, Ottawa Co., Michigan 1868
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Grand Haven, Michigan, 1868
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Grand Haven, Michigan, in 1868 was a lumber and shipping town where the Grand River meets Lake Michigan. Sawmills along the river turned Michigan pine into boards and shingles bound for Chicago and other markets, and schooners carried that cargo out through the channel between the piers. Three years after the Civil War ended, the town's waterfront was busy with lumber piles, docks, and vessels waiting for the lake season. Residents knew Grand Haven as a river port that lived or died by the timber trade and the weather on the big lake.
| Created / published | 1868 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., merchant's lithographing company, glover, e. s. (eli sheldon) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Grand Haven, 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 | 7,904 × 6,256 px · prints to 26 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of the city of Grand Haven, Ottawa Co., Michigan 1868 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489191 |
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