Richmond, Virginia, 1863 – 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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A window into the past: Richmond, Virginia, 1863, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Richmond, Virginia, 1863
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Richmond, Virginia, in 1863 was the capital of the Confederate States, a role it had held since the government moved from Montgomery in May 1861. The city's factories were turned largely to the war effort. The Tredegar Iron Works, on the James River below the falls, cast cannon and rolled armor plate, while tobacco factories and warehouses along the river were pressed into government and army service. Crowded with soldiers, government clerks, and refugees, the city struggled with severe food shortages, and in April 1863 women marched through downtown in the bread riot that broke into local stores. Residents knew their town as the seat of a government at war, where the sound of distant fighting was never far off and the James River canal and rail lines carried supplies in and wounded men out.
| Created / published | 1863 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Richmond, Virginia, drawn in 1863. 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 |
| Original scan | 5,138 × 4,269 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491149 |
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