Baltimore, Maryland, 1862 – 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 Baltimore, Maryland, 1862, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: View of Baltimore City, Md., from the North
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Baltimore, Maryland, 1862
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Baltimore in 1862 was a busy port caught between Union and Southern loyalties. Its harbor on the Patapsco River handled grain, flour, tobacco, and coastal shipping, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the nation's first common carrier, ran its main line west from the city toward the Ohio River. With roughly 200,000 residents, the city held many people with Southern sympathies, a tension that erupted in April 1861 when a Massachusetts regiment passing through was attacked on Pratt Street. Federal troops occupied the city that year to keep Maryland in the Union, and by 1862 soldiers, depots, and hospitals were part of everyday life. Those who lived there would have known it as a commercial gateway and a contested border town.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Creator | e. sachse & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Baltimore, Maryland, drawn in 1862. 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--Maryland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,368 × 5,744 px · prints to 28 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Baltimore City, Md., from the North |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489102 |
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