Newton, Iowa, 1868 – 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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This antique map of Newton, Iowa, 1868 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: Bird's eye view of Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa 1868
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Newton, Iowa, 1868
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In 1868, Newton was the county seat of Jasper County in central Iowa, a farming town at the edge of the prairie where settlers had arrived within the previous two decades. Its economy rested on grain, livestock, and the goods and services that country trade required, so the courthouse square, stores, and craft shops were the center of daily life. The Civil War had ended only three years earlier, and many families in the county still carried memories of men who had marched off to fight and of those who did not return. Residents would have known their town as a sober, hardworking place where the next railroad connection and the next good harvest mattered more than anything else.
| Created / published | 1868 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a., merchant's lithographing company |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Newton, Iowa, 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--Iowa |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,608 × 6,752 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa 1868 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488397 |
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