Gadsden, Alabama, 1887 – 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 rare antique map captures Gadsden, Alabama, 1887 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Perspective map of the city of Gadsden, Ala. county seat of Etowah County 1887
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Gadsden, Alabama, 1887
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Gadsden, Alabama, in 1887 was a river and railroad town on the Coosa River in the northeast part of the state, and it was growing with the New South boom that was reshaping the region. Cotton, timber, and farm trade moved through its streets, and its position between the Coosa and the rail lines made it a shipping point for goods bound for the mines and furnaces of the Birmingham district, about 50 miles to the southwest. Local residents of the period knew the town as a place of new brick storefronts, churches, and schools replacing older frame buildings, and as a county seat with an active civic and social life. This view records that town as it stood in the mid-1880s, before later fires, rebuilding, and expansion changed its streets.
| Created / published | 1887 |
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| Creator | henry wellge & co, wellge, h. (henry), beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Gadsden, Alabama, drawn in 1887. 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--Alabama |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,936 × 6,160 px · prints to 26 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Perspective map of the city of Gadsden, Ala. county seat of Etowah County 1887 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487792 |
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