Jackson, Tennessee, 1870 – 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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Jackson, Tennessee, 1870 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: Bird's eye view of the city of Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee 1870
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Jackson, Tennessee, 1870
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Jackson, the seat of Madison County in West Tennessee, was in 1870 a railroad junction and a market town for cotton grown on the surrounding plantations. Only a few years after the Civil War, the town was rebuilding under Reconstruction, and its population included many newly freed Black residents who were founding churches, schools, and businesses. Cotton factors and merchants around the courthouse square handled the crop before it moved out by rail toward Memphis and the Gulf. Residents would have known Jackson as a county town whose fortunes rose and fell with the price of cotton and the schedules of its trains.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Creator | chicago lithographing co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Jackson, Tennessee, drawn in 1870. 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--Tennessee |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,776 × 6,984 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee 1870 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490889 |
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