Columbus, Georgia, 1886 – 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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Step back in time with Columbus, Georgia, 1886, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Perspective map of Columbus, Ga., county seat [of Muscogee Cou]nty, 188[6]
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Columbus, Georgia, 1886
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Columbus, Georgia, in 1886 was a river town on the Chattahoochee whose economy rested on falling water and cotton. Textile mills and iron works lined the riverbank, using the current to turn their machinery, and the Central of Georgia Railway's presence made the city a shipping point for the region's crops and goods. Less than twenty years earlier, Union troops had struck the city in the closing weeks of the Civil War and destroyed much of its industrial core, so the rebuilt mills and foundries of the 1880s stood as evidence of recovery. Residents of the period would have known Columbus as a manufacturing center on the Georgia side of a river that divided it from Alabama.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), henry wellge & co, beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Columbus, Georgia, drawn in 1886. 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--Georgia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 11,280 × 7,392 px · prints to 38 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Perspective map of Columbus, Ga., county seat [of Muscogee Cou]nty, 188[6] |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488316 |
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