Batavia, 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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Step back in time with Batavia, Illinois, 1869, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Batavia, Kane County, Illinois, 1869
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Batavia, Illinois, 1869
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Batavia, Illinois, in 1869 was a small Kane County town on the Fox River, about thirty miles west of Chicago. Its economy rested on river-powered mills and on the farm trade flowing in from the surrounding prairie, and the railroad that ran through town tied its grain and goods to the larger markets to the east. Only four years after the Civil War ended, residents were still building a settled community after a decade of wartime upheaval, with new houses, churches, and business blocks going up along the streets. For the people who lived there, the town was known as a dependable river and rail stop, a place where farmers came to sell and where the mill whistles marked the working day.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | chicago lithographing co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Batavia, 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 | 7,248 × 5,776 px · prints to 24 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Batavia, Kane County, Illinois, 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488556 |
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