Battle Creek, Michigan, 1869 – 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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A window into the past: Battle Creek, Michigan, 1869, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Mills & manufacturing establishments of the city of Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., Mich
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Battle Creek, Michigan, 1869
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Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1869 was a grain-milling and railroad town of a few thousand people, sitting where the Battle Creek River meets the Kalamazoo. Its growth followed the Michigan Central Railroad, which had brought freight and passengers through the town since the 1840s, and the mills along the water turned local wheat into flour for shipment east. Only a few years after the Civil War, the town was also home to the Seventh-day Adventist church, whose headquarters had moved there in 1855, and its health reform institute drew visitors seeking treatment. Residents of that period would have known Battle Creek first as a railroad stop and milling center, with its churches and institutions a growing part of its reputation.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Battle Creek, Michigan, 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--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,688 × 4,288 px · prints to 22 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Mills & manufacturing establishments of the city of Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., Mich |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489181 |
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