Lansing, Michigan, 1866 – 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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This antique map of Lansing, Michigan, 1866 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of the city of Lansing, Michigan 1866
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Lansing, Michigan, 1866
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Lansing, Michigan, in 1866 was a young state capital that had only held the seat of government since 1847, when lawmakers moved it from Detroit to a site chosen in the forest along the Grand River. The town's economy rested on lumber and milling, since the river's current powered sawmills and grist mills and carried logs and finished boards downstream. In the year this view was drawn, residents were still adjusting to peace after the Civil War, which had ended only a year earlier and had sent many local men home from Michigan regiments. The Michigan Agricultural College, chartered in 1855 a few miles east of town, gave Lansing a second public institution and helped make it a place people knew for both government and farming.
| Created / published | 1866 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Lansing, 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 | 8,928 × 6,736 px · prints to 30 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of the city of Lansing, Michigan 1866 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489203 |
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