Topeka, Kansas, 1869 – 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.)
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Topeka, Kansas, 1869 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Topeka, the capital of Kansas 1869
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Topeka, Kansas, 1869
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Topeka, Kansas, in 1869 was a river town of about 5,000 people that had been the state capital since Kansas entered the Union in 1861. Its growth rested on the Kansas River and on the Kansas Pacific Railway, which had reached the town in 1866 and tied local grain, livestock, and lumber to markets in the East. Residents were still arguing over the shape of their government, and the unfinished stone statehouse on the hill was a constant reminder that the capital had not yet settled into permanence. Many of the wood-frame houses and commercial blocks drawn on this sheet were newer than the people living in them, which suggests how quickly a frontier outpost was turning into a county seat.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Topeka, Kansas, 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--Kansas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,480 × 6,496 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Topeka, the capital of Kansas 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488799 |
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