Cedar Key, Florida, 1884 – 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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This antique map of Cedar Key, Florida, 1884 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Cedar-Key, Fla., Levy Co
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Cedar Key, Florida, 1884
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Cedar Key, Florida, in 1884 was a small Gulf Coast port on the islands at the edge of the state's cedar country. Its wharves handled cedar logs, lumber, fish, and oysters, and the town's fortunes rested on the rail line that ran inland to meet the wider Florida network. Cedar Key had been occupied by Union troops during the Civil War, and its residents still lived with that memory when this map was drawn. The town was also exposed to Gulf storms, and a severe hurricane in 1896 would later wreck much of the waterfront, so the streets and buildings recorded here were already vulnerable to the weather that shaped the coast.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | stoner, j. j., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Cedar Key, Florida, drawn in 1884. 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--Florida |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,440 × 4,192 px · prints to 25 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Cedar-Key, Fla., Levy Co |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488247 |
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