IL Chicago 1871a MAP – 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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IL Chicago 1871a MAP comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye-view of Chicago as it was before the great fire
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IL Chicago 1871a MAP
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Theodore R. Davis, an illustrator best known for his wartime and later work for *Harper's Weekly*, drew this bird's-eye panorama of Chicago, showing the lakeside city at once from an elevated oblique angle. Davis combined close street-level detail with a wide aerial sweep, so the river, its bridges, the rail lines and the Lake Michigan shore can all be traced. Its 1871 date places it at the edge of the Great Chicago Fire of October that year, which destroyed much of the downtown shown here, making the map a valuable record of the city just before that loss.
| Created / published | 1871 |
|---|---|
| Creator | davis, theodore r. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 3,132 × 2,324 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye-view of Chicago as it was before the great fire |
| Reference | IL-Chicago-1871a |
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