Washington, D.C., 1922 – 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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A window into the past: Washington, D.C., 1922, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Washington, the beautiful capital of the nation
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Washington, D.C., 1922
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Washington in 1922 was a city of roughly 437,000 people, and the 1920 census had counted it well beyond the compact capital of earlier decades. Warren G. Harding occupied the White House, and newspapers were beginning to report on oil leases at Teapot Dome that touched the Interior Department. The Washington Naval Conference, which opened in November 1921, met through the winter to discuss limits on warship construction among the major naval powers, with delegates gathering at Memorial Continental Hall near the White House. In May, Harding dedicated the Lincoln Memorial on the Potomac shore, giving the western end of the Mall a marble temple that residents soon came to regard as the capital's newest landmark.
| Created / published | 1922 |
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| Creator | olsen, william, columbia planograph co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Washington, Washington DC, drawn in 1922. 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 | 14,731 × 8,968 px · prints to 49 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Washington, the beautiful capital of the nation |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488216 |
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