Aurora, Illinois, 1867 – 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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A window into the past: Aurora, Illinois, 1867, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Aurora, Illinois 1867
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Aurora, Illinois, 1867
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Aurora, Illinois, in 1867 was a Fox River manufacturing town in Kane County, about forty miles west of Chicago. Its mills and shops drew power from the river and its growth depended on the railroads that linked it to Chicago and the wider Midwest. The Civil War had ended only two years earlier, and returning soldiers, along with German, Irish, and New England families, were filling new houses and churches on the town's grid of streets. Residents of the period knew Aurora as a busy, expanding river city whose future seemed tied to the iron road and the water wheel. The town's business district and rail yards were still changing quickly, so a view of the streets from that year captures a place in the middle of its growth.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | chicago lithographing co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Aurora, Illinois, drawn in 1867. 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--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,768 × 6,832 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aurora, Illinois 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488554 |
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