DeLand, 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 rare antique map captures DeLand, Florida, 1884 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of De Land, Fla., Volusia County, 1884
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DeLand, Florida, 1884
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DeLand, Florida, in 1884 was a small town in Volusia County that Henry A. DeLand, a New York baking powder manufacturer, had founded about eight years earlier as a settlement for Northern families looking for a milder climate. Its economy rested mainly on citrus, with orange groves spreading across the land around the streets laid out on the plan. The town also had a young school that would later become Stetson University, which gave DeLand an intellectual reputation unusual for so small a place in interior Florida. Residents in the 1880s would have known the town for its orange groves, its churches and schools, and its settlers from New England and the Midwest. The buildings and streets shown here record a community still forming its institutions a few years after its founding.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), stoner, j. j., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of DeLand, 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 | 6,928 × 3,792 px · prints to 23 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of De Land, Fla., Volusia County, 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488248 |
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