Georgetown, Washington, D.C., 1855 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 antique map of Georgetown, Washington, D.C., 1855 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: View of Georgetown D.C.
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Georgetown, Washington, D.C., 1855
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Georgetown in 1855 was a separate municipality with its own mayor and council, sitting on the Potomac just west of the federal city. Its economy still depended on the river, where flour mills, tobacco warehouses and wharves handled cargo bound for Alexandria and the Chesapeake. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which reached Cumberland in 1850, carried coal and grain down from the Maryland mountains to Georgetown's basin. Georgetown College, the Jesuit school founded in 1789, drew students from across the country and gave the town an academic and Catholic character that set it apart from the government city next door. Congress would soon end its independence, folding Georgetown into a single District of Columbia government in 1871.
| Created / published | 1855 |
|---|---|
| Creator | e. sachse & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Georgetown, Washington DC, drawn in 1855. 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--Washington DC |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,672 × 6,128 px · prints to 29 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Georgetown D.C. |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488204 |
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