Bay City, Michigan, 1867 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Bay City, Michigan, 1867 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Bay City, Portsmouth, Wenona & Salzburg, Bay Co., Michigan 1867
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Bay City, Michigan, 1867
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Bay City, Michigan, in 1867 sat at the mouth of the Saginaw River on Saginaw Bay, at the center of the Saginaw Valley lumber trade. Sawmills lined the river, and rafts of logs floated down from the pine forests upstream to be cut into boards and shipped out by schooner and rail. The Detroit, Saginaw and Bay City Railroad had linked the town to Detroit only a few years earlier, and the lumber money that flowed through town was building churches, schools, and stores along its streets. Residents of the period would have known Bay City first as a sawmill town, a place where the river was busy from spring thaw to freeze-up, and this view records that riverfront economy at its height.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bay City, Michigan, 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--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,960 × 6,528 px · prints to 30 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Bay City, Portsmouth, Wenona & Salzburg, Bay Co., Michigan 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489184 |
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