Highland, Illinois, 1894 – 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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Highland, Illinois, 1894 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: Highland, Ill
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Highland, Illinois, 1894
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Highland, in Madison County, Illinois, was in 1894 a small farm town whose population grew out of Swiss immigrant settlement begun in the 1830s. Its families worked the surrounding prairie, earning their living from grain, livestock and dairy, and the town served as a trading center for the farms around it. German and Swiss-German speech, Protestant churches and a school shaped everyday life, and many residents kept old customs alive in their homes. The mid-1890s brought hard times after the Panic of 1893, when falling farm prices and tight credit pressed on country merchants and families alike. A town of this size would have known itself chiefly by its churches, its school, and the Main Street where neighbors met on market days.
| Created / published | 1894 |
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| Creator | hoerner, john simon, heinicke-fiegel litho. co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Highland, Illinois, drawn in 1894. 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 | 9,280 × 4,992 px · prints to 31 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Highland, Ill |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488583 |
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