Washington, D.C., 1872 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Washington, D.C., 1872 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye-view of Washington City, D.C.
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Washington, D.C., 1872
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Washington in 1872 was still a federal city, with clerks filling the department buildings and members of Congress lodging near the Capitol. That November, voters re-elected Ulysses S. Grant to a second term, and the capital's politics centered on the White House and Congress. Howard University, founded in 1867 to educate freed people and their children, was among the city's most important newer institutions, and Freedmen's Hospital, opened in 1862, offered care to Black residents who had few other options. Most of the city's income still came from federal salaries and government contracts, and the Library of Congress, housed in the Capitol, kept growing as Congress added books to its shelves.
| Created / published | 1872 |
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| Creator | w.h. & o.h. morrison (firm), morrison, george a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Washington, Washington DC, drawn in 1872. 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--Washington DC |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,192 × 4,752 px · prints to 21 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye-view of Washington City, D.C. |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488208 |
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