Iowa IA - 21 Vintage Panoramic City Maps on CD Start Price USD 9.97 Current Price USD 9.97 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, September 03, 2008 End Time Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Location Anderson, SC See more about 'Iowa IA - 21 Vintage Panoramic City Maps on CD' Description The Historical Archive Sample Page Search 100's of DVD's and CD's in our eBay Store: Visit my eBay Store: The Historical Archive Or Visit a Specific Store Category Collections at Savings Advertising History American Indian Americana Antique Books on CD Antique Maps on CD Auto History Civil War Fairs & Festivals Historic Photo CDs Myth, Legend & Folklore Railroads Religious Collections Revolutionary War Space History Vintage Audio/Video CDs World at War NEW CATEGORIES: News of the Day U.S. Presidents Atomic & Nuclear Weapons Tests Old Time Radio Collections (Links open in new window) Historic Panoramic Maps of Iowa Including 21 City Maps Save Big! Buy the entire 31 CD Panoramic Map Collection and save over 50% off the price of buying them all individually. 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 (1847 to 1929.) Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps, and aero views, panoramic maps are nonphotographic 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. 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 horsedrawn 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. Victorian America's panoramic maps are quite remarkable in the perspective of the cities they capture. 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. These maps reveal much about the great contrasts and contradictions of the industrial age and the progressive era. Preparation of panoramic maps involved a vast amount of painstakingly detailed labor. For each project a frame or projection was developed, showing in perspective the pattern of streets. The artist then walked in the street, sketching buildings, trees, and other features to present a complete and accurate landscape as though seen from an elevation of 2,000 to 3,000 feet. 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 horsedrawn 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. Here is a complete list of the city maps included in this collection. Where you see a city listed several times, there are several different maps - either maps created in different years and/or by different map making companies. 1. Blairstown 1868 2. Burlington 1889 3. Cedar Rapids / Kingston 1868 4. Council Bluffs 1868 5. Davenport / Council Bluffs / Atlantic / Muscatine / Chariton / Des Moines / Red Oak 1875 6. Davenport 1888 7. De Witt 1868 8. Decorah 1870 9. Des Moines 1868 10. Dubuque 1889 11. Fort Madison 1889 12. Guttenberg 1869 13. Iowa City 1868 14. Lyons 1868 15. Marengo 1868 16. Marion 1868 17. Marshalltown 1868 18. McGregor / Marquette 1869 19. Montana 1868 20. Newton 1868 21. Sioux City 1888 Each map image on this CD is a super high resolution scan of an original panoramic map. Original maps were often as large as 36" x 36" or even larger. To offer all these maps at 100% detail, they are stored in either MRSid format or in JPEG 2000 format and require special viewers to be able to view all the details in these superb historical maps. Viewers and full viewing instructions for both Windows and Macintosh computer platforms are included on this CD. Some Additional Map Samples Below you will find an example of the enlargement ability of the maps contained on this CD. You will see how you can view a small snapshot of the image all the way up to an incredible level of detail at the highest resolutions. The below set of images comes from Mystic CT and gives an excellent example of the level of detail in these maps at various levels of "magnification". (Smallest size of this image) (Small portion enlarged 2 times) (Small portion enlarged 3 times) (Small portion enlarged 4 times) (Small portion enlarged 5 times - this enlargement represents the full original size of the map when printed at full scale.) As you can see from the above images, each map offers hours of exploration and excitement as you explore the cities as they were 100 or more years ago. These maps may be viewed on your computer or printed out. The software will allow you to size the maps to any level of detail you wish and either print out the entire map or just a portion of it. (Even full scale maps can be printed with a large enough printer - like the ones used in your neighborhood poster and print shops.) To use this software, you must install the free Map Viewing software which is included on the CD. This is a 30 second process and will allow you to view and manipulate/print all the maps in this CD collection in full detail. There are versions for both Windows platforms and Macintosh platforms and full installation instructions are included on the CD. Please visit Our About Me Page to Learn More about Us! This product is a CD. All our CDs are professionally produced and packaged in DVD sized cases. This allows you to easily store them with your on your shelf and retrieve them easily. All our CDs are designed to play on any Microsoft Windows computer and Macintosh computers running OS X or higher. Some of our CDs require a special viewer to be installed on your computer to view the images. 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