Albany, Georgia, 1885 – 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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Albany, Georgia, 1885 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: View of the city of Albany, Ga. (the Artesian City) county-seat of Dougherty-County. 1885
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Albany, Georgia, 1885
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Albany, the seat of Dougherty County in southwest Georgia, sat on bluffs above the Flint River in 1885 and depended on cotton. Bales moved through its warehouses and onto the rail lines that had reached the town after the Civil War, tying it to Macon and to the Gulf trade. Downtown streets held merchants' houses and brick business blocks where farm produce and manufactured goods changed hands. Many of the people who worked the fields, wharves, and shops were Black men and women who had gained their freedom only twenty years earlier, and their families, like white families in town, organized their lives around the planting and picking seasons.
| Created / published | 1885 |
|---|---|
| Creator | norris, wellge & co, beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Albany, Georgia, drawn in 1885. 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--Georgia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,400 × 4,992 px · prints to 28 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of the city of Albany, Ga. (the Artesian City) county-seat of Dougherty-County. 1885 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488312 |
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