Bowling Green, Ohio, 1888 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 Bowling Green, Ohio, 1888. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bowling Green, Ohio 1888
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Bowling Green, Ohio, 1888
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Bowling Green, the seat of Wood County in northwestern Ohio, was a market town of a few thousand people in 1888. Its economy rested on grain, livestock, and the trade in farm goods from the surrounding townships, and railroad lines carried those shipments toward Toledo and the Lake Erie ports. That decade, a natural gas boom swept northwestern Ohio, drawing investors and promises of cheap fuel to towns across the region. Residents knew the town as a county center of courthouse politics, churches, schools, and a growing business district along its main streets, and the 1888 view captures those streets as they stood on the eve of the 1890s.
| Created / published | 1888 |
|---|---|
| Creator | burleigh litho, burleigh & norris |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bowling Green, Ohio, drawn in 1888. 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--Ohio |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,752 × 5,664 px · prints to 29 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bowling Green, Ohio 1888 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490262 |
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