Jefferson City, 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: Jefferson City, 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 Jefferson City, the capitol of Missouri 1869
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Jefferson City, Missouri, 1869
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Jefferson City had been Missouri's state capital since 1826, and in 1869 it was a river town on bluffs above the Missouri, a few years after the Civil War and the Reconstruction-era constitution of 1865 had reshaped state politics. The Pacific Railroad had reached the town in 1855, tying the capital to St. Louis and bringing legislators, freight and travelers up the river valley. The state penitentiary, which employed guards and used convict labor, sat within the town, while the capitol completed in 1840 crowned the high ground and the government offices clustered around it. Residents would have known Jefferson City chiefly as the seat of state government, a place whose rhythms followed the legislative calendar and the arrival of the trains.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Jefferson City, 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 | 8,288 × 6,448 px · prints to 28 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Jefferson City, the capitol of Missouri 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489392 |
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