Washington, Missouri, 1869 – Antique Map Print
(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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This antique map of Washington, Missouri, 1869 brings a moment of history to your wall. 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 the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri 1869
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Washington, Missouri, 1869
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Washington, Missouri, sat on the north bank of the Missouri River in Franklin County, about fifty miles west of St. Louis, and in 1869 it was still a town shaped by its German settlers. Many residents were farmers, vintners, and craftsmen who grew grapes on the surrounding bluffs and shipped produce and goods by river. Steamboats tied up at the town landing, and the expanding rail network across Missouri was reshaping which river towns would keep their trade. Civic life centered on German-language churches, schools, and singing and gymnastic societies that held their meetings in the town's brick and frame buildings. The map records those streets, houses, and riverfront warehouses as they stood at that moment, before later decades changed the town's layout.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Washington, 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 | 8,400 × 6,800 px · prints to 28 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489422 |
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