Birds eye view of Philadelphia – Antique Map Print
![Birds eye view of Philadelphia, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1875. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/21/216e13554ac2-L.webp)
(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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Birds eye view of Philadelphia comes to life in this antique lithograph, 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.
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Birds eye view of Philadelphia
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Seen from a height that lets the whole city spread out at once, this hand-colored lithograph turns Philadelphia into a panorama of streets, rooftops, and the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Currier & Ives, the New York firm best known for its sporting, political, and domestic prints, issued it in 1875, a year before the Centennial Exhibition drew crowds to the city. Bird's-eye views like this were popular in the 1870s and 1880s because they offered viewers a map-like overview of a growing city, and the hand coloring gives the buildings and open spaces a lively, individual look worth examining up close.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1875. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1870-1888. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0592. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,226 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114373 |
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