The City of Chicago, bird's-eye panoramic view – Antique Map Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This antique map of The City of Chicago, bird's-eye panoramic view brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
The City of Chicago, bird's-eye panoramic view
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Drawn from a high vantage point over the whole city, this panorama shows Chicago as a dense grid of streets running down to the shore of Lake Michigan. Bird's-eye views like this were popular in the late 19th century, when Chicago was growing faster than almost any other American city. They let viewers take in the rail yards, the branches of the Chicago River, and the crowded commercial blocks at a glance. Before aerial photography, these hand-drawn views were the closest most people could come to seeing an entire city at once, and they now preserve detail about streets and buildings that has changed greatly since.
| Original scan | 5,100 × 3,600 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | IL-Chicago-1874 |
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