Bird's eye view, Philadelphia / lith. by H.J. Toudy & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. – 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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Bird's eye view, Philadelphia / lith. by H.J. Toudy & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Bird's eye view, Philadelphia / lith. by H.J. Toudy & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
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Drawn from an elevated angle that lets the whole city spread out at once, this lithograph shows Philadelphia as it looked in the mid-1870s, just as the city was preparing to host the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. John P. Hunt & Co. published the print, and the Philadelphia firm H.J. Toudy & Co. made the lithograph, which the publisher registered for copyright. Bird's-eye views like this one were popular with residents and visitors who wanted to locate streets, rail lines and landmarks at a glance, and they now serve as detailed records of the city's layout before later growth.
| Created / published | Philad. : Published by John P. Hunt & Co., c1876. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 64 x 93 cm. (image including borders) |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1870-1880.Cityscape prints 1870-1880.Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | 6441G U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by John P. Hunt & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 828.3 |
| Subjects | Philadelphia (Pa.)--1870-1880.United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,124 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114859 |
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