Niles, Michigan, 1868 – 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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Niles, Michigan, 1868 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Niles, Berrien County, Michigan
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Niles, Michigan, 1868
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Niles, on the St. Joseph River in Berrien County in southwestern Michigan, was a mill and railroad town in 1868. The Michigan Central line had run through it since 1849, tying the village to Detroit and Chicago and giving its mills and farm produce access to wider markets. The river's current powered grist and sawmills, and the surrounding farm fields supplied the grain and timber they handled. Three years after the Civil War ended, residents were living through Reconstruction and the 1868 campaign that sent Ulysses S. Grant to the White House. The streets, churches, and depot shown here were the town that its people knew as home.
| Created / published | 1868 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Niles, Michigan, drawn in 1868. 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 | 9,040 × 6,944 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Niles, Berrien County, Michigan |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489212 |
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