Palmyra, 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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A window into the past: Palmyra, Missouri, 1869, 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 Palmyra, Marion Co., Missouri, A.D. 1869
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Palmyra, Missouri, 1869
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Palmyra, the seat of Marion County in northeast Missouri, was in 1869 a farming town whose income came mainly from corn, wheat, hemp, and livestock. The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad ran through the area, tying local shippers to markets along the Mississippi and beyond. The town had been scarred in 1862, when Union officers executed Confederate sympathizers in retaliation for the killing of a Union man, and the quarrel left lasting divisions among neighbors. By the late 1860s residents were rebuilding civic life around the courthouse square, with churches, schools, and merchants setting the daily rhythm. A street-by-street view like this one would have been recognized at once by the families who lived and traded there.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Palmyra, 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 | 8,144 × 6,384 px · prints to 27 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Palmyra, Marion Co., Missouri, A.D. 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489399 |
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