Bloomington, Illinois, 1867 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Bloomington, Illinois, 1867. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bloomington, Illinois 1867
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Bloomington, Illinois, 1867
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Bloomington, the seat of McLean County in central Illinois, stood in 1867 as a grain, livestock, and farm-equipment town on the prairie. Its growth rested on the railroads that crossed there, with the Illinois Central and the Chicago and Alton lines bringing settlers, shipping corn and wheat east toward Chicago, and drawing in the steady trade that kept its downtown busy. Illinois State Normal University, founded in the late 1850s in the neighboring town of Normal, sent teachers and students to Bloomington's streets, churches, and shops. Residents of the period would have known the town as a prosperous county center still finding its footing after the Civil War, when veterans came home and the city's civic life was rebuilding around courthouse business, schools, and the rail depots.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bloomington, Illinois, drawn in 1867. 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 | 8,931 × 6,753 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bloomington, Illinois 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488558 |
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