Charlottesville, Virginia, 1856 – Antique Map Print
(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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Charlottesville, Virginia, 1856 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: View of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville & Monticello, taken from Lewis Mountain
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Charlottesville, Virginia, 1856
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In 1856 Charlottesville was the seat of Albemarle County, a town shaped above all by the University of Virginia, which Thomas Jefferson founded and which opened in 1825 on a ridge just west of town. Students from across the South filled its hotels, boarding houses, and shops, while nearby farms sent wheat, corn, and tobacco to market. Rail service reached the town in the early 1850s, when the Virginia Central line linked it to Richmond and the Shenandoah Valley. Enslaved men and women worked in town households, on university grounds, and in surrounding fields, a system central to local life on the eve of the sectional crisis. Residents would have known the town chiefly as the home of Jefferson's university.
| Created / published | 1856 |
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| Creator | bohn, casimir, e. sachse & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Charlottesville, Virginia, drawn in 1856. 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--Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,928 × 6,656 px · prints to 30 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville & Monticello, taken from Lewis Mountain |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491140 |
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