Sedalia, Missouri, 1869 – 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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Step back in time with Sedalia, Missouri, 1869, an antique map rich in period 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 Sedalia, Pettis Co., Missouri 1869
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Sedalia, Missouri, 1869
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Sedalia, Missouri, in 1869 was a young railroad town in Pettis County, shaped by the Pacific Railroad, which had reached the spot only in the decade before the Civil War. Its depots and rail yards made it a shipping point for Texas longhorn cattle driven north along the trail that bore its name in the late 1860s, and that trade brought cowhands, drovers, and merchants into its streets each season. Shops, hotels, and stock pens clustered near the tracks, and the town was still establishing its churches, schools, and civic institutions. Residents would have known Sedalia as a place where the railroad and the cattle trade met, a town whose fortunes rose and fell with the drives.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Sedalia, 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 | 8,576 × 6,848 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Sedalia, Pettis Co., Missouri 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489403 |
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