Chicago, Illinois, 1898 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Chicago, Illinois, 1898. 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 business district of Chicago
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Chicago, Illinois, 1898
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In 1898, Chicago was a city well past a million residents, and its leaders were busy with the Sanitary and Ship Canal, a project begun in 1892 to cut a channel toward the Des Plaines River and reverse the flow of the Chicago River away from Lake Michigan. That spring the Spanish-American War turned local attention to the armories, where Illinois volunteer companies drilled for possible service in Cuba and the Philippines. Newspapers on the downtown streets carried daily reports of the fighting, and families on the north, west, and south sides followed the war closely. For many residents, the city was a place where civic projects, military mobilization, and steady neighborhood growth all unfolded at once.
| Created / published | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Creator | poole brothers |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Chicago, Illinois, drawn in 1898. 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--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 18,046 × 12,903 px · prints to 60 × 43 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye-view of the business district of Chicago |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488574 |
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