Lincoln, 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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Lincoln, Illinois, 1869 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: Birds eye view of the city of Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois 1869
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Lincoln, Illinois, 1869
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Lincoln, Illinois, in 1869 was a young railroad town in Logan County, barely fifteen years old, and its growth followed the Illinois Central Railroad, which had laid its line through the prairie in the early 1850s. Grain, livestock, and farm goods moved out by rail, and the county seat drew lawyers, merchants, and farmers to its courthouse square. Residents knew the town as the place Abraham Lincoln had often visited while riding the Eighth Judicial Circuit, a connection that gave the town its name and a steady sense of local pride. The years after the Civil War brought new churches, schools, and a college to the community, and the streets shown on this map reflect a town still filling in its blocks between the depot and the courthouse.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner, ruger, a., merchant's lithographing company |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Lincoln, 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 | 8,464 × 6,688 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of the city of Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488586 |
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