Albion, Michigan, 1868 – 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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This antique map of Albion, Michigan, 1868 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of the city of Albion, Calhoun Co., Michigan
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Albion, Michigan, 1868
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Albion, Michigan, in 1868 was a small farm-country town in the south-central part of the state, and its growth depended on the Michigan Central Railroad, whose line had reached the town by the 1840s. Albion College, begun in 1835 as a Methodist seminary and renamed a college in 1861, brought students and church families that shaped much of the town's social life. Many local men had served in the recent Civil War and were home by 1868, when the community was rebuilding its streets, shops and churches. To its residents, Albion was a railroad town with a college on the hill, where the depot, the campus and the main street formed the center of daily life.
| Created / published | 1868 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Albion, Michigan, drawn in 1868. 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 | 8,736 × 6,624 px · prints to 29 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of the city of Albion, Calhoun Co., Michigan |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489179 |
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