City of Washington Statistical Map No. 4, Showing Lines of Shade Trees – Antique Wall Map
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City of Washington Statistical Map No. 4, Showing Lines of Shade Trees comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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City of Washington Statistical Map No. 4, Showing Lines of Shade Trees
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This map sets itself apart by plotting the city's street trees rather than its streets, buildings, or boundaries, so the shaded avenues and the gaps between them become the subject. Maps of this kind were used by city officials in the late 1800s to take stock of public planting, since Washington's wide avenues and grid of streets were lined with shade trees meant to soften the summer heat and give the capital a more orderly, park-like look. Read today, the lines on the sheet show where the city invested in greenery and where it did not, offering a record of how the capital's public landscape was planned and cared for.
| Original scan | 7,860 × 5,532 px · prints to 26 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | cs000005 |
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