Akron 2, Ohio, 1882 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Akron 2, Ohio, 1882 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: Panoramic view of the city of Akron, Summit County, Ohio 1882
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Akron 2, Ohio, 1882
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Akron, Ohio, in 1882 was a county seat of Summit County, built around the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Little Cuyahoga River, whose falls had long powered its mills. Flour milling, iron and machine shops, and clay and woolen works gave the town its working character, and the railroads that crossed it had made it a shipping point for goods bound east and west. The population was roughly ten thousand, and many residents still thought of Akron first as a canal town and mill town. Buchtel College, opened in 1870 under Universalist backing, was a point of civic pride, though the rubber companies that would later define the city had not yet arrived. A view of the town from that year records its streets, factories, and church spires as they stood before the city's great industrial expansion of the 1890s.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner, beck & pauli, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Akron 2, Ohio, drawn in 1882. 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--Ohio |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,232 × 6,976 px · prints to 31 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic view of the city of Akron, Summit County, Ohio 1882 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490256 |
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