Anniston, Alabama, 1888 – 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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This rare antique map captures Anniston, Alabama, 1888 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Anniston, Ala. 1888
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Anniston, Alabama, 1888
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Anniston, Alabama, in 1888 was a New South manufacturing town that had grown quickly since its founding in the early 1870s. Its cast-iron pipe foundries and related works employed much of the working population, and the town's future seemed tied to the furnaces and shops that lined its rail spurs. Visitors and residents alike spoke of Anniston as a symbol of Alabama's postwar push to build factories and attract northern and southern capital. The map records the town's streets, depots, and factory grounds at a moment when its population was climbing toward several thousand.
| Created / published | 1888 |
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| Creator | glover, e. s. (eli sheldon), shober & carqueville |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Anniston, Alabama, drawn in 1888. 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--Alabama |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,824 × 6,448 px · prints to 33 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Anniston, Ala. 1888 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487788 |
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