Saint Joseph, Missouri, 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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A window into the past: Saint Joseph, Missouri, 1868, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri 1868
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Saint Joseph, Missouri, 1868
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Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1868 was a river town on the east bank of the Missouri, shaped by its role as a jumping-off point for travel and trade westward. The Pony Express had started from the town in 1860, and the wagon freight and emigrant traffic bound for the plains and the Rockies still moved through its streets. The Hannibal Bridge, completed in 1866, linked the town by rail to the eastern network, so goods and passengers now crossed the river on iron rather than by ferry. Missouri had been divided during the Civil War, and the city was still working through that divide and its wartime losses when this view was drawn. The map records the town as residents knew it in those postwar years, with its warehouses, church spires, and the rail yards that were changing its economy.
| Created / published | 1868 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., merchant's lithographing company |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Saint Joseph, Missouri, 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--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,912 × 6,992 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri 1868 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489402 |
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