Toledo, Ohio, 1876 – Antique Wall Map
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique map of Toledo, Ohio, 1876. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Toledo, Ohio 1876
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Toledo, Ohio, 1876
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Toledo, Ohio, in 1876 was a Lake Erie port where the Maumee River reaches the lake, and its docks handled grain, lumber, and coal moving east and west by water and rail. Several railroad lines met in the city, and their yards and depots shaped its streets and its growth in the years after the Civil War. Workers in the shipyards, grain elevators, and factories lived in neighborhoods close to the river, while merchants and lawyers built homes on the wider avenues to the north and west. The city's newspapers, churches, and civic clubs gave residents a shared sense of themselves as a busy commercial town, and the 1876 centennial year prompted many local boosters to take stock of how far the community had come.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Creator | charles shober & co, chicago lithographing co, stoner, j. j., ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Toledo, Ohio, drawn in 1876. 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 | 8,320 × 4,824 px · prints to 28 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Toledo, Ohio 1876 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490290 |
More from the Panoramic Maps collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
