Marengo, Iowa, 1868 – 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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This rare antique map captures Marengo, Iowa, 1868 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Marengo, Iowa Co., Iowa 1868
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Marengo, Iowa, 1868
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Marengo, the seat of Iowa County in east-central Iowa, was a young farm town in 1868. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific line had reached it only a few years earlier, and the railroad made the town a shipping point for corn, hogs, and wheat bound for Chicago markets. Farmers from the surrounding prairie drove wagons to the depot and the courthouse square, where lawyers, grain buyers, and storekeepers did most of their business. The Civil War had ended only three years before, and many families had sons who came home from the army to rebuild farms and shops. The courthouse and the rail yards were the center of local life, and residents would have known the town first as a place where the county's business and its produce both changed hands.
| Created / published | 1868 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., merchant's lithographing company |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Marengo, Iowa, 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--Iowa |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,480 × 6,656 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Marengo, Iowa Co., Iowa 1868 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488391 |
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