McGregor, Iowa, 1869 – 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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This antique map of McGregor, Iowa, 1869 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: Bird's eye view of the city of McGregor and North McGregor, Clayton County, Iowa 1869
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McGregor, Iowa, 1869
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McGregor, Iowa, in 1869 was a river town on the east bank of the Mississippi in Clayton County, shaped by steamboat traffic and the lumber trade that moved down the upper river from the northern pineries. Its landing and warehouses handled freight bound for markets to the south, and the blufflands behind the streets gave the town a narrow, stacked layout that a bird's-eye view handles well. Residents had lived through the Civil War only a few years earlier and were rebuilding commerce and civic life in the postwar years, with churches, schools, and merchant blocks filling the lots near Main Street. A map drawn at this moment records a community still defined by the river, before railroads reshaped how goods and people moved through northeast Iowa.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger & stoner, ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of McGregor, Iowa, 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--Iowa |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,280 × 6,368 px · prints to 24 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of McGregor and North McGregor, Clayton County, Iowa 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488394 |
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