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[Bird's-eye view of Austin, Texas (?)] – Historic Map Reproduction

[Bird's-eye view of Austin, Texas (?)] — historic photograph
[Bird's-eye view of Austin, Texas (?)]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Austin, the Texas state capital, is the subject of this small carte-de-visite, which offers a bird's-eye view looking down over the town. The catalog record credits H.B. Hillyer as the photographer and dates the card only to the 1860s, and the title carries a question mark, so the exact vantage point and location remain uncertain. Carte-de-visite cards were widely popular in that decade, and elevated views of a growing town gave viewers a rare overall sense of its streets and buildings. Its unresolved details make it a useful starting point for anyone tracing how Austin looked in the years around the Civil War.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[186-?]
SubjectsCarte-de-visite by H.B. Hillyer, Austin, Texas. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Texas--Austin?; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 885 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171034

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