41 ANTIQUE OLD GENEALOGY RARE MAPS OF MISSOURI MO. CD

The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps, and aero views, panoramic maps are non photographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Although not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective.

 

 

Victorian America's panoramic maps differ dramatically from the Renaissance city perspectives. The post-Civil War town views are more accurate and are drawn from a higher oblique angle. Small towns as well as major urban centers were portrayed. Panoramic mapping of urban centers was unique to North America in this era. Most panoramic maps were published independently, not as plates in an atlas or in a descriptive geographical book. Preparation and sale of nineteenth-century panoramas were motivated by civic pride and the desire of the city fathers to encourage commercial growth. Many views were prepared for and endorsed by chambers of commerce and other civic organizations and were used as advertisements of a city's commercial and residential potential.

 

Panoramic maps graphically depict the vibrant life of a city. Harbors are shown choked with ships, often to the extent of constituting hazards to navigation. Trains speed along railroad tracks, at times on the same roadbed with locomotives and cars headed in the opposite direction. People and horse drawn carriages fill the streets, and smoke belches from the stacks of industrial plants. Urban and industrial development in post-Civil War America is vividly portrayed in the maps.

In order to view these high resolution maps on any PC a small software installation (included) of a professional program is necessary, this program will allow you to Zoom in for highly detailed browsing of maps. (streets, carriages, people, and lots of other bustling little city details. Literally hours of intricate details to be rendered and revealed.) View with microscope or telescope tools for closer examination. Copy and paste maps to any image editor, export as a .tiff, measure maps assigning centimeters, inches, yards, feet, miles or kilometers. Print your maps out for framing makes a exquisite addition to any home or office gallery.

 

Powerful and Revealing Zoom in properties and features.

Aurora, Missouri 1891 map dimensions 37 x 66 cm
Bird's eye view of Brookfield, Missouri 1869 map dimensions 38 x 52 cm
Bird's eye view of California, Missouri 1869 map dimensions 38 x 48 cm
Carthage, Missouri 1891 map dimensions 35 x 81 cm
Bird's eye view of the city of Chillicothe, Missouri 1869 map dimensions 52 x 66 cm
Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri 1869 map dimensions 44 x 56 cm
Hannibal, Marion Co., Missouri 1869 map dimensions 56 x 66 cm
Hermann, Gasconade Co., Missouri 1869 map dimensions 33 x 41 cm
Holden, Johnson Co., Missouri 1869 map dimensions 24 x 30 cm
Independence, Jackson Co., Missouri 1868 map dimensions 53 x 66 cm
Jefferson City, the capitol of Missouri 1869 map dimensions 50 x 66 cm
Kansas City, Missouri 1869 map dimensions 55 x 71 cm
West bottoms, Kansas City, Missouri 1895 map dimensions 76 x 126 cm
Lexington, Lafayette Co., Missouri 1869 map dimensions 51 x 66 cm
Panorama of the World's Fair, St Louis, 1904 map dimensions 32 x 97 cm
World's Fair, St Louis, 1904 map dimensions 62 x 94 cm
Macon City, Macon County, Missouri 1869 map dimensions 51 x 65 cm
Mexico, Audrian Co., Missouri 1869 map dimensions 50 x 66 cm
Pacific, formerly Franklin, Missouri 1869 map dimensions 23 x 30 cm
Palmyra, Marion Co., Missouri, A.D. 1869 map dimensions 49 x 66 cm
Pleasant Hill, Cass Co., Missouri 1869 map dimensions 31 x 46 cm
Saint Charles, St. Charles Co., Missouri 1869 map dimensions 51 x 66 cm
City of Saint Joseph, Missouri 1868 map dimensions 56 x 71 cm
Map and view of St. Louis, Mo. 1848 map dimensions 23 x 29 cm
Saint Louis, Missouri 1859 map dimensions 44 x 56 cm
St. Louis. Missouri 1873 map dimensions 38 x 52 cm
Saint Louis, Missouri 1874 map dimensions 38 x 58 cm
The great metropolis of Saint Louis 1876 map dimensions 36 x 71 cm
St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Ry. 1876 map dimensions 30 x 60 cm
Picture of progress of St. Louis, Mo 1884 map dimensions 58 x 73 cm
St. Louis in '93. map dimensions 63 x 100 cm
The panorama of St. Louis 1892 map dimensions 39 x 61 cm
St. Louis, Missouri in 1895. map dimensions 51 x 101 cm
St. Louis, Missouri in 1896. map dimensions 51 x 101 cm
Saint Louis in 1896. map dimensions 51 x 88 cm
St. Louis, Missouri 1897 map dimensions 16 x 23 cm
Panoramic view of wholesale & office district of St. Louis 1904 map dimensions 8 x 25 cm
The heart of St. Louis, Missouri 1907 map dimensions 45 x 61 cm
Sedalia, Pettis Co., Missouri 1869 map dimensions 51 x 67 cm
Warrensburg, Johnson Co., Missouri 1869 map dimensions 36 x 51 cm
Washington, Franklin County, Missouri 1869 map dimensions 51 x 65 cm

 

Panoramic Map Framed

 

Panoramic maps give a pictorial record of Anglo-America's cities during the post-Civil War period and for many localities provide the sole nineteenth-century map. No other graphic form of this era so effectively captured the vitality of America's urban centers.

 

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