Adrian, Michigan, 1866 – Antique Map Print
(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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Step back in time with Adrian, Michigan, 1866, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Adrian, Michigan 1866
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Adrian, Michigan, 1866
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Adrian, Michigan, was a county seat in 1866, serving the farms of Lenawee County, where wheat, wool, and livestock were the main sources of local wealth. The Civil War had ended about a year earlier, and the town was settling back into peacetime trade, with merchants and farmers depending on the rail line that carried grain and goods to markets farther east. Water power from the Raisin River supported mills and small workshops along its banks, and Adrian College, a Methodist school founded in the late 1850s, gave the town a academic presence beyond its size. Residents in 1866 would have known Adrian as a steady agricultural market town whose courthouse, churches, and college set the rhythm of civic life.
| Created / published | 1866 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Adrian, Michigan, drawn in 1866. 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--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,912 × 7,104 px · prints to 36 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Adrian, Michigan 1866 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489178 |
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