Shelbyville, Illinois, 1869 – 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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This antique map of Shelbyville, Illinois, 1869 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Shelbyville, Shelby County, Illinois 1869
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Shelbyville, Illinois, 1869
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Shelbyville, the seat of Shelby County in central Illinois, was in 1869 a farm trading town at the edge of the prairie, where grain, livestock, and hogs moved out by wagon and by rail. The Civil War had ended only a few years earlier, and the postwar decade brought new businesses, schools, and churches to courthouse-square streets. Local residents measured their town's prospects by the arrival of railroad lines, which could carry produce to larger markets and bring in merchandise and settlers. This bird's-eye view, drawn by A. Ruger, shows the town as its boosters wanted it seen: laid out in neat blocks, with its public buildings and the homes of its leading families set among the trees.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a., merchant's lithographing company |
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,464 × 6,592 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Shelbyville, Shelby County, Illinois 1869 |
| Reference | IL-Shelbyville-1869 |
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