Lima, Ohio, 1892 – 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 Lima, Ohio, 1892 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: City of Lima, O. 1892
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Lima, Ohio, 1892
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Lima, Ohio, in 1892 was the county seat of Allen County and a railroad and industrial town in the northwestern part of the state. The natural gas and oil discoveries of the late 1880s had drawn investors, drillers, and new factories, and the locomotive works and other shops on the town's edges gave many families steady wages. The Miami and Erie Canal, which had once carried much of the local freight, had lost ground to the rails, but several lines still met in Lima and kept its depots and freight yards busy. Residents of the period knew the town for its gas boom, its churches and courthouse square, and its growing street of brick commercial blocks, all of which this street-by-street view records.
| Created / published | 1892 |
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| Creator | smith & buckingham, geo. s. harris & son |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Lima, Ohio, drawn in 1892. 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 | 12,384 × 9,152 px · prints to 41 × 31 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | City of Lima, O. 1892 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490278 |
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