Bellaire, Ohio, 1882 – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Bellaire, Ohio, 1882, preserved in this antique map. 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 Bellaire, Ohio 1882
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Bellaire, Ohio, 1882
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Bellaire, on the Ohio River across from Wheeling, West Virginia, was a manufacturing town in 1882, its waterfront shaped by glass works, iron and steel mills, and the steamboat traffic that moved goods up and down the river. The Central Ohio Railroad ran through the town and carried coal, iron, and finished goods to eastern markets, and a railroad bridge linked Bellaire to the Benwood shore. Workers' households clustered in the hillside streets above the mills, while merchants and mill owners built larger homes and churches on the higher ground. Residents of the 1880s would have known Bellaire as a river town whose fortunes rose and fell with the furnaces, the glass houses, and the river's water levels.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), stoner, j. j., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bellaire, Ohio, drawn in 1882. 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--Ohio |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,912 × 4,496 px · prints to 26 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Bellaire, Ohio 1882 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490260 |
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