Tecumseh, Michigan, 1868 – 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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Tecumseh, Michigan, 1868 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan 1868
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Tecumseh, Michigan, 1868
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Tecumseh, Michigan, in Lenawee County, was a farming town of the Raisin River valley in 1868, only a few years past the Civil War and the decade that brought railroads through southeastern Michigan. Grain, livestock, and the flour and lumber mills that served surrounding farms gave the town much of its livelihood, and its streets were lined with the merchants, churches, and shops that a county-seat neighborhood would expect. The town took its name from the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, a name residents carried with some local pride. The lithograph shows the town as local people would have recognized it: each house and storefront placed on its lot, at a moment when rail service was changing how farm produce and goods moved.
| Created / published | 1868 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co, glover, e. s. (eli sheldon) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Tecumseh, Michigan, 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--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,600 × 6,112 px · prints to 25 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan 1868 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489220 |
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