Franklin, Missouri, 1869 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 Franklin, Missouri, 1869, 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: Pacific, formerly Franklin, Franklin Co., Missouri 1869
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Franklin, Missouri, 1869
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Franklin, in Howard County, Missouri, was by 1869 a much smaller place than the river town it had been in the 1820s, when it served as the eastern starting point of the Santa Fe Trail. The Missouri River had cut into its original site and flooded it repeatedly, and much of the trade and population drifted to Boonville and other towns upriver. In the years after the Civil War, the surrounding Boonslick country still depended on farming, with hemp, tobacco, corn, and livestock as the main crops, and the town's shops and warehouses served those farms. Residents of 1869 would have known Franklin mainly as the place where the old trail began, a reputation that outlasted its commercial importance.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Franklin, Missouri, drawn in 1869. 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--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 3,784 × 3,096 px · prints to 13 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pacific, formerly Franklin, Franklin Co., Missouri 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489387 |
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