Wyandotte, Michigan, 1896 – 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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This antique map of Wyandotte, Michigan, 1896 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Wyandotte, Michigan 1896
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Wyandotte, Michigan, 1896
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Wyandotte, Michigan, sat on the Detroit River about nine miles below Detroit in 1896, and its fortunes rested on the water and on the chemical works that had begun to rise along its shoreline. Lumber, boatbuilding, and river traffic had shaped the town for decades, but the alkali and chemical plants were drawing in new workers and reshaping its streets and riverfront. Residents of the period knew Wyandotte as a working river town where the factory whistles and the steamboat landings set the daily rhythm, and it still kept the name of the Wyandot people who had lived along this stretch of the Detroit River before American settlement. The map records those shoreline works, the streets laid out behind them, and the homes and churches of a community that was growing quickly in the shadow of Detroit.
| Created / published | 1896 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Wyandotte, Michigan, drawn in 1896. 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--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,048 × 7,200 px · prints to 33 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Wyandotte, Michigan 1896 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489221 |
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