Springfield, Illinois, 1867 – 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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Springfield, Illinois, 1867 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Springfield, Illinois 1867
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Springfield, Illinois, 1867
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By 1867 Springfield, Illinois, had been the state capital for nearly three decades, and its railroads made it a shipping point for grain, livestock, and coal from the surrounding prairie. The Chicago and Alton Railroad had reached the town in 1853, and the lines that followed drew merchants, machine shops, and wholesale houses to the blocks near the depot. Residents still tied their town to Abraham Lincoln, who had practiced law there and was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery on the city's edge only two years earlier. The public square, the churches, and the modest brick and frame houses around them are all recorded here as they stood in the years just after the Civil War.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Springfield, Illinois, drawn in 1867. 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--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,704 × 6,896 px · prints to 36 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Springfield, Illinois 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488608 |
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