Iowa Scenes, Iowa, 1875 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Iowa Scenes, Iowa, 1875. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Iowa Scenes, Iowa, 1875
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Iowa in 1875 was a state of farms and railroad towns, with more than a million people counted in the 1870 census and corn, oats and hogs forming the backbone of its economy. Grain elevators, creameries and small mills stood beside the depots where new lines carried produce east toward Chicago and river markets. The mid-1870s also brought hardship, as swarms of Rocky Mountain locusts damaged crops across the state in 1874 and 1875 and left many farm families short of food and seed. Townspeople would have known their community by its courthouse square, its churches and the business blocks along Main Street, which marked how much a place had grown since the war.
| Created / published | 1875 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Iowa Scenes, Iowa, drawn in 1875. 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--Iowa |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 4,088 × 5,184 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488389 |
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