Washington, D.C., 1884 – Antique Wall Map
(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., 1884 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: The national capital, Washington, D.C. Sketched from nature by Adolph Sachse, 1883-1884
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Washington, D.C., 1884
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Washington in 1884 was a federal town, and its residents were already watching the coming presidential contest. Chester A. Arthur had held the White House since Garfield's death in 1881, and most working people drew their wages from government departments or the Navy Yard on the Anacostia. In November, Democrat Grover Cleveland won the presidency, the first man of his party to take the office since James Buchanan in 1856, and clerks across the city wondered whether their jobs would survive the change of administration. Beyond the main avenues, many side streets remained unpaved, and the gap between the grand boulevards and their neighborhoods was still plain to anyone who walked them.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | sachse, adolph, a. sachse & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Washington, Washington DC, drawn in 1884. 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 | 10,128 × 6,896 px · prints to 34 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The national capital, Washington, D.C. Sketched from nature by Adolph Sachse, 1883-1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488211 |
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