Akron, Ohio, 1870 – 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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A window into the past: Akron, Ohio, 1870, 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 the city of Akron, Summit County, Ohio 1870
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Akron, Ohio, 1870
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Akron, Ohio, in 1870 was a canal and milling town of roughly 10,000 people, built around the Ohio and Erie Canal and the falls of the Little Cuyahoga River, where water power turned grain mills and small shops. The canal had driven the town's early growth, and by the 1860s railroad lines ran through it, linking the farms of Summit County to Cleveland and markets farther west. As the county seat, Akron had a courthouse square, churches, and a steady flow of merchants and farmers coming to town. Residents would have known it as a busy canal and rail stop rather than the rubber center it later became, though that change was already beginning. In 1870 B.F. Goodrich opened a rubber works in the city, a modest start that few residents could have foreseen.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner, chicago lithographing co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Akron, Ohio, drawn in 1870. 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 | 9,000 × 6,968 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Akron, Summit County, Ohio 1870 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490254 |
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