Hermann, Missouri, 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Hermann, Missouri, 1869, preserved in this antique map. 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 Hermann, Gasconade Co., Missouri 1869
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Hermann, Missouri, 1869
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Hermann, Missouri, in 1869 was a German river town on the north bank of the Missouri River, founded by settlers from the Giessen Emigration Society in the late 1830s. Its economy rested on river trade and on wine, since the surrounding hillsides suited vineyards and German immigrant families had planted them for decades. Steamboats carried the region's grain, wine, and goods downriver toward St. Louis, and the town's storefronts and warehouses along the waterfront reflected that commerce. Residents in the years after the Civil War would have known Hermann for its German language, its singing societies and church life, and its growing reputation as one of Missouri's leading wine-producing communities.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Hermann, Missouri, 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--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 5,336 × 4,456 px · prints to 18 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Hermann, Gasconade Co., Missouri 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489389 |
More from the Panoramic Maps collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
