Danville, Illinois, 1869 – Antique Wall Map
(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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This rare antique map captures Danville, Illinois, 1869 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Danville, Vermillion County, Illinois 1869
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Danville, Illinois, 1869
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Danville, the seat of Vermilion County in east-central Illinois, stood on the Vermilion River in 1869, a few years after the Civil War ended. Railroads had reached the town by the 1850s, and they tied its farm trade and coal mining to markets in Chicago and beyond. Mines in the surrounding county drew workers and kept the local economy tied to coal, while grain, livestock, and merchandise moved through the depot and along Main Street. The town's courthouse, churches, schools, and shops made it the center of county politics and social life, and residents of 1869 would have known it as a busy county seat that was still growing outward from its older core.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Danville, Illinois, 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--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,128 × 6,368 px · prints to 27 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Danville, Vermillion County, Illinois 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488578 |
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