Aurora, Illinois, 1882 – 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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Step back in time with Aurora, Illinois, 1882, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Aurora, Illinois 1882
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Aurora, Illinois, 1882
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Aurora, Illinois, in 1882 was a Fox River city of mills, machine shops, and railroad yards, and much of its work came from the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, whose shops made it one of the larger employers in Kane County. Factories along the river still ran on water power alongside steam engines. German and Irish families crowded the streets nearest the works, and the city council argued over paving, sidewalks, and street lighting. Residents knew Aurora first as a railroad town, where the shop whistle and passing freight trains set the daily rhythm. By the early 1880s the city had settled into its industrial identity after the rapid growth of the previous decade.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Creator | stoner, j. j., brosius, h., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Aurora, Illinois, drawn in 1882. 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--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,664 × 6,032 px · prints to 32 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aurora, Illinois 1882 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488555 |
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