Monmouth, Illinois, 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Monmouth, Illinois, 1869. 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 Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois 1869
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Monmouth, Illinois, 1869
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Monmouth, the seat of Warren County in western Illinois, was about four decades old when this 1869 bird's-eye view was drawn, and the town was still shaped by the farm economy around it. Corn, wheat, and livestock from the surrounding prairie moved through its shipping points, and the railroads that reached the county in the 1850s had tied local farmers to Chicago and the wider Midwest markets. The town's churches, courthouse square, and schools anchored civic life, and Monmouth College, founded in the 1850s by a Presbyterian congregation, gave the place an educational reputation that reached well beyond Warren County. The Civil War had ended only a few years earlier, and the drawing captures a community that was growing, rebuilding its commercial blocks, and proud of the new brick buildings going up along its streets.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a., merchant's lithographing company |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Monmouth, Illinois, 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--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,416 × 6,480 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488593 |
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