Tallahassee, Florida, 1926 – 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.)
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Tallahassee, Florida, 1926 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Aero-view of Tallahassee 1926
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Tallahassee, Florida, 1926
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Tallahassee in 1926 was the capital of a state whose economy was being reshaped by the land boom along the peninsula's southern coast, though the inland capital grew far more slowly than Miami or Tampa. Two state colleges anchored the town: the Florida State College for Women, which drew young women from across the state, and the college for Black students that later became Florida A&M. Lawmakers had added wings to the 1845 capitol in the early 1920s, so the government still worked from a building that stood out against the modest town around it. Residents knew Tallahassee as a government and college town set among pine and farm country. In September 1926 a hurricane struck Miami and the southeast coast, and news of the damage reached Leon County as the state's boom came to an abrupt halt.
| Created / published | 1926 |
|---|---|
| Creator | wynne, james |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Tallahassee, Florida, drawn in 1926. 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 | 4,864 × 5,872 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero-view of Tallahassee 1926 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488258 |
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