South Bend, Indiana, 1866 – 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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South Bend, Indiana, 1866 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: South Bend, Indiana 1866
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South Bend, Indiana, 1866
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South Bend, Indiana, in 1866 was a river town on the St. Joseph River, built around milling and wagon making. The Studebaker brothers' wagon works had grown from a small blacksmith shop into one of the largest such firms in the country, and its wagons had hauled Union supplies during the Civil War, which had ended only months before this view was drawn. The Michigan Central Railroad had reached the town in 1851, linking local farms and factories to Chicago and the East. A short distance away, the Catholic school of Notre Dame, founded in 1842, kept its own community apart from the town's commerce. Residents would have known South Bend as the place where wagons rolled out and trains rolled in.
| Created / published | 1866 |
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| Creator | chicago lithographing co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of South Bend, Indiana, drawn in 1866. 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--Indiana |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,816 × 6,848 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | South Bend, Indiana 1866 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488742 |
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