Thomasville, Georgia, 1885 – 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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Thomasville, Georgia, 1885 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: Thomasville, Ga. county-seat of Thomas-County 1885. Famous winter resort for northern invalids and pleasure seekers
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Thomasville, Georgia, 1885
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Thomasville, Georgia, in 1885 was a railroad town in the pine country of the state's southwest corner, and its fortunes rested on the trains and the winter visitors they carried. Wealthy families from the North came south each cold season to stay in its hotels and boarding houses, and the town promoted itself as a health resort, which gave it a reputation well beyond its size. Beneath that trade ran older work from the surrounding forest, including lumber, turpentine, and cotton from nearby farms, all shipped out by rail. As the seat of Thomas County, the town also depended on courthouse business and local merchants, who shaped daily life along its main streets.
| Created / published | 1885 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), beck & pauli, norris, wellge & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Thomasville, Georgia, 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--Georgia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,048 × 5,392 px · prints to 27 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Thomasville, Ga. county-seat of Thomas-County 1885. Famous winter resort for northern invalids and pleasure seekers |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488325 |
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