Camp Chase, Ohio, 1860 – 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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Camp Chase, Ohio, 1860 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Camp Chase near Columbus, Ohio
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Camp Chase, Ohio, 1860
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Camp Chase, Ohio, in 1860 was a stretch of open ground on the western edge of Columbus, the state capital, on the Scioto River. The name would soon become known across the North when the Union army established a training camp there in 1861, shortly after the Civil War began, and later a prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate captives. Columbus itself was a growing city of under twenty thousand people, with rail lines radiating out to Cincinnati, Cleveland, and beyond, and its government and legislature gave it a steady civic life. Local residents in 1860 knew the area mainly for its farms, its river, and the political debates over slavery and the Union that were building toward war.
| Created / published | 1860 |
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| Creator | ehrgott, forbriger & co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Camp Chase, Ohio, drawn in 1860. 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 | 7,800 × 5,936 px · prints to 26 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Camp Chase near Columbus, Ohio |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490264 |
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