Selma, Alabama, 1887 – 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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A window into the past: Selma, Alabama, 1887, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Perspective map of Selma, Ala. county seat of Dallas County 1887
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Selma, Alabama, 1887
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Selma, Alabama, in 1887 was a cotton and river town on the Alabama River in Dallas County, where bales arrived from the surrounding plantation country to be weighed, pressed, and shipped by steamboat and rail. By the 1880s several railroad lines met there, tying its warehouses and cotton factors to markets farther away. The town had been heavily damaged in April 1865, when Union cavalry under James H. Wilson burned its Confederate arsenal and naval works, and residents rebuilt on the same ground in the years after the war. People in the 1880s knew Selma as a trading center for the Black Belt, where planters, merchants, and freedpeople all came to do business along the bluff above the river.
| Created / published | 1887 |
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| Creator | henry wellge & co, wellge, h. (henry), beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Selma, Alabama, drawn in 1887. 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--Alabama |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,363 × 6,624 px · prints to 35 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Perspective map of Selma, Ala. county seat of Dallas County 1887 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487795 |
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