Port Huron, Michigan, 1867 – 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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Step back in time with Port Huron, Michigan, 1867, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of the city of Port Huron, Sarnia & Gratiot, St. Clair Co., Michigan 1867 & Point Edwards, Lambton Co., Canada west
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Port Huron, Michigan, 1867
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Port Huron, Michigan, in 1867 was a lumber and shipping town at the southern tip of the St. Clair River, where the water flows out of Lake Huron and toward Detroit. Sawmills and shipping docks along the riverfront handled timber cut in the northern Michigan pinelands, and the rail lines that reached the town tied it to markets in Detroit and beyond. Across the river, the Canadian town of Sarnia faced it, and ferries and trains carried people and freight between the two shores. The young Thomas Edison spent these years in Port Huron, selling newspapers and candy on the trains, and the town was still small enough that its streets, wharves, and church spires could be drawn one by one.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Port Huron, Michigan, 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--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,056 × 6,848 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of the city of Port Huron, Sarnia & Gratiot, St. Clair Co., Michigan 1867 & Point Edwards, Lambton Co., Canada west |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489214 |
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