Council Bluff, Iowa, 1875 – 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: Council Bluff, Iowa, 1875, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Council Bluff, Iowa, 1875
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Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1875 was a river and railroad town on the Iowa bluffs, directly across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska. Its growth rested on the railroads. The Union Pacific had made the town its eastern terminal, and lines from the east reached it by the late 1860s, so freight and passengers moved through its depots and riverfront warehouses. Earlier residents knew the settlement as Kanesville, a stopping point for Mormon emigrants and overland travelers bound for Oregon, California, and Utah, and that memory still shaped local pride. By the mid-1870s, wholesale houses, lumber yards, and the grain trade served farms across southwestern Iowa, and the town depended on the Missouri crossing linking the old emigrant trails to the rail lines pushing west.
| Created / published | 1875 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Council Bluff, Iowa, drawn in 1875. 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--Iowa |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 4,032 × 5,248 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488377 |
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