Muskegon, Michigan, 1868 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Muskegon, Michigan, 1868. 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 Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan 1868
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Muskegon, Michigan, 1868
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Muskegon, Michigan, in 1868 was a lumber town on the Lake Michigan shore, where logs floated down the Muskegon River to a crowded row of sawmills. Pine cut from the surrounding forests made it one of the busiest lumber shipping ports on the Great Lakes, and the mills drew workers and merchants faster than housing and streets could keep up. Railroad service had reached the town only recently, tying its lumber yards to Chicago and the wider Midwest. Residents knew Muskegon above all as a sawmill town, where fortunes rose and fell with the price of lumber and the supply of standing pine. Many of its buildings were new, raised during the postwar boom, and its streets were still unpaved.
| Created / published | 1868 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Muskegon, Michigan, drawn in 1868. 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 | 8,800 × 6,800 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan 1868 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489208 |
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