Jacksonville, Florida, 1876 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Jacksonville, Florida, 1876 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Jacksonville, Fla
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Jacksonville, Florida, 1876
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Jacksonville in 1876 was a river port on the St. Johns, where steamers carried passengers and freight between the city wharves and the coastal towns, and timber and naval stores moved out through the harbor. The city was still recovering from the Civil War, but railroads built in the decade before had made it the main gateway for northern visitors seeking Florida's mild winters, a trade that would grow steadily. In the Centennial year, residents were rebuilding churches, schools and commercial blocks along a regular street grid as Reconstruction drew toward its end in Florida. Yellow fever, which returned to the city in the later 1870s, remained a constant worry for families each summer.
| Created / published | 1876 |
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| Creator | alvord, kellogg & campbell, koch, augustus |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Jacksonville, Florida, drawn in 1876. 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--Florida |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,920 × 7,872 px · prints to 33 × 26 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Jacksonville, Fla |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488250 |
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