Massillon, Ohio, 1870 – Antique Map Print
(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 Massillon, Ohio, 1870 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.
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Massillon, Ohio, 1870
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Massillon, Ohio, in 1870 was a small industrial town of the Tuscarawas River valley in Stark County, founded in 1826 and named for the French bishop Jean-Baptiste Massillon. The Ohio and Erie Canal and, by then, railroad lines carried coal, grain, and iron goods in and out of the town, and foundries and machine shops along the river made farm equipment and steam engines for a farm economy that was expanding across the Midwest. Russell and Company, one of the best-known manufacturers in the area, produced threshing machinery and traction engines that sold far beyond Ohio. Residents of the period knew the town as a working community of mills, churches, and brick commercial blocks, and the map's street-by-street detail records the shops and houses that made that world.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Massillon, Ohio, drawn in 1870. 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 |
| Original scan | 8,400 × 6,616 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490280 |
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