Columbia, Missouri, 1869 – 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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Columbia, Missouri, 1869 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri 1869
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Columbia, Missouri, 1869
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Columbia, Missouri, in 1869 was a small county seat of a few thousand people, built around the courthouse square and the campus of the University of Missouri, the state's public university. The school had been disrupted by the Civil War, when Boone County was torn between Union and Confederate sympathies, and in the years after 1865 it worked to rebuild its enrollment and standing. Farming shaped the surrounding county, where hemp, corn, wheat, and livestock brought in most of the local income, and merchants on the square sold goods to farm families who came to town on market days. Rail service was still new and limited, so wagons and roads carried most of the traffic in and out. For residents, the town was first a college town and a trading center for the county.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Columbia, 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 | 7,176 × 5,680 px · prints to 24 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489386 |
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