Holden, Missouri, 1869 – 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.)
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Holden, Missouri, 1869 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 Holden, Johnson Co., Missouri 1869
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Holden, Missouri, 1869
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Holden, a railroad town in Johnson County in west-central Missouri, was growing up around its depot in 1869, when the rail line was the reason the settlement existed. Freight sheds, a passenger station and the grain and livestock shipping that followed drew farmers from the surrounding prairie and bottomland into town. Johnson County's farms depended on corn and livestock, and the county had been bitterly divided during the Civil War, so residents in these years were rebuilding stores, churches and local government while working through old quarrels. For the people who lived there, Holden meant a new depot, a main street of frame and brick business buildings, and a future tied to the railroad.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Holden, Missouri, drawn in 1869. 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--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,208 × 3,560 px · prints to 14 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Holden, Johnson Co., Missouri 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489390 |
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