Charleston, South Carolina, 1872 – 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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Charleston, South Carolina, 1872 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Charleston, South Carolina 1872
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Charleston, South Carolina, 1872
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Charleston in 1872 was still digging out from the Civil War and the occupation that followed it. The city had lost much of its antebellum wealth after the war, and its harbor trade, cotton factorage and rice merchandising had not yet recovered their old scale. Reconstruction politics dominated civic life, and the city's population was divided sharply between white and Black residents, many of whom were newly free and building churches, schools and mutual aid societies. The map records a peninsula city of church steeples, wharves along the Cooper and Ashley rivers, and the older houses that gave the town its reputation for gardens and grace.
| Created / published | 1872 |
|---|---|
| Creator | drie, c. n. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Charleston, South Carolina, drawn in 1872. 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--South Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,456 × 6,880 px · prints to 35 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Charleston, South Carolina 1872 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490805 |
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