Statesville, North Carolina, 1907 – 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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A window into the past: Statesville, North Carolina, 1907, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: [Bird's-eye-view of Statesville, North Carolina,
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Statesville, North Carolina, 1907
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Statesville, the seat of Iredell County in North Carolina's Piedmont, was in 1907 a town whose fortunes rested on rail and farm trade. The Western North Carolina Railroad ran through it, carrying cotton and grain from the surrounding countryside and bringing manufactured goods back in. Residents were also watching textile mills spread across the Piedmont, while the financial panic that autumn tightened credit for merchants and farmers alike. The town's schools, including its female college, gave it a reputation as a center of learning for the region. This street-by-street view records the commercial core as townspeople of that year would have known it.
| Created / published | 1907 |
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| Creator | downs, a. e. (albert e.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Statesville, North Carolina, drawn in 1907. 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--North Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,976 × 6,064 px · prints to 30 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Bird's-eye-view of Statesville, North Carolina, |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489534 |
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