Alexandria, Virginia, 1863 – Antique Wall Map
(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 Alexandria, Virginia, 1863 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Alexandria, Va
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Alexandria, Virginia, 1863
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Alexandria, Virginia, in 1863 was a Potomac River port that had been under Union occupation since federal troops crossed into the city in May 1861. Before the war it had shipped flour and other goods from its wharves and was linked by rail to the interior, which made it valuable to the army as a supply and hospital base for operations in northern Virginia. Residents lived under military authority, and the arrival of soldiers, freedpeople, and refugees from the countryside changed the town's streets and housing. The buildings drawn here, from churches and warehouses to homes on the main streets, show a town built around trade and now reshaped by a war fought just across the river from Washington.
| Created / published | 1863 |
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| Creator | magnus, charles |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Alexandria, 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, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,624 × 5,112 px · prints to 25 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Alexandria, Va |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491135 |
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