Leavenworth, Kansas, 1869 – 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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A window into the past: Leavenworth, Kansas, 1869, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Leavenworth, Kansas 1869
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Leavenworth, Kansas, 1869
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Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1869 was a Missouri River town founded in 1854 that already claimed to be the oldest city in the state. Its fortunes rested on river trade, and steamboats worked the levee below the bluffs, carrying freight toward the frontier posts and the western settlements. Fort Leavenworth, dating to 1827 and just outside town, brought soldiers, officers, and government contracts that shaped local business nearly as much as the river did. Residents also remembered that the Leavenworth Constitution had been drafted there in 1858, tying the town closely to the bitter politics of the territorial years. This view shows a dense grid of streets rising from the water, a market town still growing after the Civil War.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Leavenworth, Kansas, 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--Kansas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,944 × 6,960 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Leavenworth, Kansas 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488798 |
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