Lafayette, Indiana, 1868 – 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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A window into the past: Lafayette, Indiana, 1868, 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: Bird's eye view of the city of Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., Indiana 1868
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Lafayette, Indiana, 1868
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Lafayette, Indiana, sat on the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County in 1868, three years after the Civil War ended. Railroads were binding the town more tightly to the wider country, and lines reaching toward Indianapolis and Chicago turned a river town of mills, warehouses and grain shipping into a point where goods changed hands. Local merchants and the county's farmers depended on those connections, and new brick commercial blocks and houses for workers were rising along the streets. Residents knew Lafayette as the seat of a productive farming county and a steady trading town on the Wabash, where the older canal trade was losing ground to the railroad.
| Created / published | 1868 |
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| Creator | chicago lithographing co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Lafayette, Indiana, drawn in 1868. 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--Indiana |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,848 × 6,960 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., Indiana 1868 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488737 |
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