IL Chicago 1874a MAP – Antique Wall Map
(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
Few images capture their era like this antique map of IL Chicago 1874a MAP. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: The City of Chicago, showing the burnt district
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IL Chicago 1874a MAP
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This 1874 bird's-eye view of Chicago shows a city still rebuilding three years after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed much of its downtown and left tens of thousands homeless. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for its popular lithographs, issued it as one of the panoramic maps that were fashionable in the second half of the 19th century. Such views were drawn from an imagined high vantage point so that streets, rail lines, and individual buildings appear in a single sweeping picture. Look along the lakefront, where Lake Michigan meets the grid of streets, to see how the city's commercial core and growing neighborhoods were laid out.
| Created / published | 1874 |
|---|---|
| Creator | currier & ives |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 3,192 × 2,288 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The City of Chicago, showing the burnt district |
| Reference | IL-Chicago-1874a |
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