Cordele, Georgia, 1908 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Cordele, Georgia, 1908. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view Cordele, Georgia 1908
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Cordele, Georgia, 1908
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Cordele, the seat of Crisp County in south Georgia, was a young railroad town in 1908, only about two decades old, having grown up where the rail lines crossed the pine and farm country. Cotton was still the main crop on the surrounding farms, and local merchants, cotton buyers and warehousemen relied on the railroads to move bales out to Savannah and other markets. Vegetables and watermelons from truck farms were also gaining importance, a trade that would later become part of the town's identity. People living there would have known Cordele as a busy depot with a courthouse square, a growing main street and a population that was still rising. This 1908 view shows those streets and buildings as they stood that year.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | downs, a. e. (albert e.), fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Cordele, 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 | 9,616 × 6,480 px · prints to 32 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view Cordele, Georgia 1908 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488317 |
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