East Saginaw, Michigan, 1867 – 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 East Saginaw, Michigan, 1867. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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East Saginaw, Michigan, 1867
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East Saginaw, Michigan, in 1867 was a lumber town on the Saginaw River, two years past the Civil War and still riding the white pine boom that had drawn sawmill owners and crews to the Saginaw Valley since the 1850s. Logs cut upriver were floated down to mills along the banks, and the finished boards went out by schooner and increasingly by rail toward Chicago and other markets. Salt brine wells in the valley added a second industry, and the streets filled with lumber workers, merchants, and families who had come for wages. East Saginaw was then a separate municipality from Saginaw City across the river, and residents would have known it as a fast-growing lumber port where the river set the rhythm of daily life.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of East Saginaw, Michigan, drawn in 1867. 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--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,750 × 6,533 px · prints to 29 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | East Saginaw, Michigan, 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489190 |
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