Pensacola, Florida, 1885 – 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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This antique map of Pensacola, Florida, 1885 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: Pensacola, Fla. county seat of Escambia County 1885
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Pensacola, Florida, 1885
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In 1885 Pensacola, Florida, was a Gulf port whose fortunes rested on the long-leaf pine forests behind it. Sawmills along the bay cut lumber for shipment abroad, and the navy yard on the water kept a steady population of sailors, officers and mechanics. Rail lines reached the town in the early 1880s, linking the bayfront to the interior and to markets farther north. Residents were still recovering from the yellow fever epidemics of the early 1880s, and they measured progress by new wharves, schools and churches. Most who lived there would have known Pensacola first as a working harbor on the Florida panhandle.
| Created / published | 1885 |
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| Creator | norris, wellge & co, wellge, h. (henry), beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Pensacola, Florida, drawn in 1885. 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--Florida |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,416 × 6,368 px · prints to 28 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pensacola, Fla. county seat of Escambia County 1885 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488255 |
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