Fitzgerald, Georgia, 1908 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Fitzgerald, Georgia, 1908 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: Bird's eye view of Fitzgerald, Georgia 1908
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Fitzgerald, Georgia, 1908
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Fitzgerald, Georgia, in 1908 was a town of barely a dozen years, founded in 1895 as a colony for Union army veterans by Philander Fitzgerald, an Indianapolis newspaper publisher who promoted the settlement through his paper, the American Tribune. Its settlers came largely from the North and hoped to make farms and a town out of raw south Georgia land. By the time this map was drawn, cotton, the railroad, and a growing group of merchants gave the place its working character, with the rail lines making it a shipping point for the surrounding countryside. Residents would have known Fitzgerald as an unusual Georgia town, a northern-born veterans' settlement set within a region still shaped by the memory of the Confederacy.
| Created / published | 1908 |
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| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Fitzgerald, Georgia, drawn in 1908. 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--Georgia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,312 × 7,152 px · prints to 31 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Fitzgerald, Georgia 1908 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488318 |
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