Washington, D.C., 1916 – 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., 1916, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C.--the nation's capital
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Washington, D.C., 1916
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Washington in 1916 was still a city organized around the federal government, with Woodrow Wilson in the White House and seeking a second term that November. His campaign leaned heavily on the claim that he had kept the country out of the war in Europe, even as Congress debated military preparedness after Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, in March. In August, Congress created the National Park Service within the Interior Department, placing the Mall, the monuments and the capital's parks under a new bureau. Many District residents who paid federal taxes still had no voting representation in Congress, a grievance that surfaced again in every election season.
| Created / published | 1916 |
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| Creator | b.s. reynolds co, green, h. h., matthews-northrup works |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Washington, Washington DC, drawn in 1916. 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 | 7,040 × 5,408 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C.--the nation's capital |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488215 |
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