Macon City, 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.)
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This rare antique map captures Macon City, Missouri, 1869 in remarkable detail. 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 Macon City, Macon County, Missouri 1869
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Macon City, Missouri, 1869
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Macon City, the seat of Macon County in north-central Missouri, was a railroad and farm town in 1869, a few years after the Civil War had divided its residents and left the county's fields and fences damaged. The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad had reached the area before the war, and the tracks tied the town's grain, livestock, and farm goods to shipping points to the east and west. Merchants, lawyers, and county officials ran the courthouse square, and the churches, schools, and lodges along its streets gave the town its social life. An 1869 view of the town would have shown residents a place still rebuilding its trade and its civic order during Missouri's postwar years.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Macon City, 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 | 8,080 × 6,464 px · prints to 27 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Macon City, Macon County, Missouri 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489396 |
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