Birmingham, Alabama, 1885 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Birmingham, Alabama, 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: Birmingham, Alabama
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Birmingham, Alabama, 1885
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Birmingham, Alabama, in 1885 was a young industrial town, founded in 1871 and named after the English city known for metalworking. Its growth rested on iron ore from Red Mountain, coal from the nearby Warrior field, and limestone, materials that drew furnace builders and investors to the district in the early 1880s. Railroads, including lines of the Louisville and Nashville system, carried pig iron and coal out of town and brought in workers seeking wages in the mills and mines. The population was still small by later standards, but the town's residents already expected that iron would define its future. Its rapid expansion and its dependence on heavy industry would shape its politics, its labor disputes, and its civic life for decades.
| Created / published | 1885 |
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| Creator | norris, wellge & co, wellge, h. (henry), beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Birmingham, Alabama, 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--Alabama |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,052 × 6,899 px · prints to 34 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birmingham, Alabama |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487790 |
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