Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1868 – 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 Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1868. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana 1868
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1868
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1868 was a river city of canal, rail, and mill industry, three years past the end of the Civil War. Its site where the St. Joseph and St. Marys rivers meet to form the Maumee had drawn settlers since the old army post of 1794, and the Wabash and Erie Canal, finished through the town in the 1840s, had made it a shipping point for grain and goods. By the late 1850s the railroads had joined the canal as the town's main link to outside markets, and Fort Wayne was becoming a rail junction whose yards, depots, and freight sheds drew workers and new households. Local life centered on the commercial blocks, churches, and schools of the downtown streets, along with flour mills, foundries, and wagon and carriage shops that supplied the surrounding farm country. Residents would have known their town as a place where the rivers, canal, and rails met.
| Created / published | 1868 |
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| Creator | chicago lithographing co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Fort Wayne, Indiana, drawn in 1868. 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--Indiana |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,992 × 6,912 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana 1868 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488733 |
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