Lake City, Florida, 1885 – 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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Lake City, Florida, 1885 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Panoramic-view of Lake City, Fla. county seat of Columbia Cty. 1885
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Lake City, Florida, 1885
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Lake City, the seat of Columbia County in north Florida, was a small town in 1885, its economy built on pine lumber, turpentine, and cotton grown on the surrounding farms. Railroad lines connected it to Jacksonville and to Georgia, moving timber and crops out and bringing travelers and new residents in. Many townspeople still remembered the Battle of Olustee, fought in February 1864 west of town, which was the largest Civil War engagement in Florida. In the years after Reconstruction, the churches, the courthouse square, and the stores around them formed the center of civic life, though segregation and labor arrangements of the period determined who held political power and who did the heaviest work.
| Created / published | 1885 |
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| Creator | norris, wellge & co, beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Lake City, Florida, 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--Florida |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,040 × 4,448 px · prints to 23 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic-view of Lake City, Fla. county seat of Columbia Cty. 1885 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488253 |
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