Saint Clair, Michigan, 1868 – 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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Step back in time with Saint Clair, Michigan, 1868, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Saint Clair, St. Clair Co., Michigan 1868
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Saint Clair, Michigan, 1868
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Saint Clair, Michigan, in 1868 was a river town whose fortunes rested on the St. Clair River, where the water flows from Lake Huron toward Lake Erie. Lumber cut in the northern Michigan pineries came south by raft and schooner, and the town's wharves, sawmills, and steamboat landings depended on that traffic. Only a few years after the Civil War, residents were still shaping their civic life around churches, schools, and the county seat. The map's street-by-street record of stores, churches, and homes shows a community that expected its growth to come from the timber and shipping moving past its waterfront.
| Created / published | 1868 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co, glover, e. s. (eli sheldon) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Saint Clair, 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 | 8,192 × 6,480 px · prints to 27 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Saint Clair, St. Clair Co., Michigan 1868 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489218 |
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