Chicago, Illinois, 1874 – 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.)
Description
Step back in time with Chicago, Illinois, 1874, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: The City of Chicago, showing the burnt district
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Chicago, Illinois, 1874
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Chicago in 1874 was a city of rebuilt streets and reopened lots, with new brick and stone replacing the wooden blocks lost in 1871. The Union Stock Yards, opened in 1865 on the southwest edge of the city, had made Chicago the country's leading center for slaughtering and packing hogs and cattle, and the packinghouses drew workers and rail lines toward the south side. Along the river and the lakefront, the same grain elevators, lumber docks, and freight tracks that had carried the city's trade before the fire were busy again. Residents who looked out over this view would have known Chicago as a place where a single decade had remade the downtown, and where the next wave of growth was already reaching the outlying neighborhoods.
| Created / published | 1874 |
|---|---|
| Creator | currier & ives |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Chicago, Illinois, drawn in 1874. 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 | 6,384 × 4,576 px · prints to 21 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The City of Chicago, showing the burnt district |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488568 |
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