Jackson, Michigan, 1881 – 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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This antique map of Jackson, Michigan, 1881 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Panoramic view of the city of Jackson, Michigan 1881
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Jackson, Michigan, 1881
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Jackson, Michigan, in 1881 was a county seat and a growing manufacturing city on the Grand River, with more than ten thousand residents by then. Its mills, foundries, and workshops drew families from farms across Jackson County, and the city's commercial blocks and factories gave it a busier, more industrial character than many inland towns of its size. Churches, fraternal lodges, and schools occupied much of the residential streets, and local newspapers kept readers informed about city council votes, county business, and the state politics that filled public life in those years. Residents of the time would have recognized the town by its river crossings and its dense grid of brick storefronts, many of them newly built after the earlier wooden blocks gave way.
| Created / published | 1881 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., beck & pauli, stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Jackson, Michigan, drawn in 1881. 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 | 9,440 × 6,144 px · prints to 31 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic view of the city of Jackson, Michigan 1881 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489199 |
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