Newport News, Virginia, 1891 – 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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This rare antique map captures Newport News, Virginia, 1891 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Perspective map of Newport News, Va., county seat of Warwick County 1891
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Newport News, Virginia, 1891
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Newport News, Virginia, in 1891 was a young town on the north shore of Hampton Roads, shaped largely by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, whose coal piers made it a shipping point for coal bound for northern and foreign markets. Collis P. Huntington's shipbuilding and dry dock company, founded in 1886, anchored the local economy and drew workers from across Virginia to its yards along the river. The town was still small enough that its streets and wharves could be recorded in full, while its population grew quickly as new houses and churches went up on land that had been farm and marsh only a few years earlier. Residents knew it as a railroad terminus and a shipyard town, with Fort Monroe across the roads giving the harbor a military presence. Steamers, schooners and tugs crowding the water defined daily life along its docks.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | american publishing co. (milwaukee, wis.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Newport News, Virginia, drawn in 1891. 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 | 10,736 × 6,880 px · prints to 36 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Perspective map of Newport News, Va., county seat of Warwick County 1891 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491144 |
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