Chicago, Illinois, 1892 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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, 1892. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: The city of Chicago
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Chicago, Illinois, 1892
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In 1892, Chicago was a river city built on grain, lumber, and rail, and the Board of Trade on LaSalle Street set the wheat and corn prices that Midwestern farmers waited to hear each morning. Horse and cable streetcars ran along State Street past Marshall Field's store, and drawbridges over the Chicago River lifted for lake schooners and steamers throughout the day. Labor tension ran beneath the prosperity, shaped by the Haymarket bombing of 1886 and the police and employer response that followed. Germans, Irish, Poles, and Scandinavians filled the west and north side wards, where parish churches and mutual aid societies organized daily life.
| Created / published | 1892 |
|---|---|
| Creator | currier & ives |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Chicago, Illinois, drawn in 1892. 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 | 12,032 × 8,112 px · prints to 40 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The city of Chicago |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488571 |
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