Red Oak, Iowa, 1875 – 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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Red Oak, Iowa, 1875 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Red Oak, Iowa, 1875
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Red Oak, the seat of Montgomery County in southwestern Iowa, was a farm-trade town in 1875, and its fortunes followed the corn, hogs, and cattle raised on the surrounding prairie. Railroad lines that reached the area in the late 1860s had linked the town to larger markets, letting grain and livestock move east and making the depot and stockyards central to local business. Merchants, grain buyers, and county officials shaped civic life from the square around the courthouse, where election contests and county business drew farmers in from the countryside on market days. Families in 1875 would have known the town as a young, growing trade center still shaped by the frontier settlement of the previous two decades. The map records each of these streets and buildings as they stood at that moment, when Red Oak was still building the institutions that would define it.
| Created / published | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Red Oak, Iowa, drawn in 1875. 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 |
| Original scan | 4,214 × 5,280 px · prints to 14 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488398 |
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