New Orleans, Louisiana, 1851 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of New Orleans, Louisiana, 1851. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Birds' eye view of New-Orleans
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New Orleans, Louisiana, 1851
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New Orleans in 1851 was the largest city in the South and one of the busiest ports in the United States, sitting on a sharp bend of the Mississippi River about a hundred miles above its mouth. Cotton was the engine of the place: bales arrived by river steamboat and by rail from the interior and were pressed, stored and shipped out through the levee-side warehouses and the Canal Street commercial district. Sugar from the surrounding parishes, the coffee and produce trade, and a large population of enslaved and free laborers worked the wharves that lined the river for miles. Yellow fever returned in periodic epidemics, and the city's crowded, low-lying streets, drained by a system of canals, shaped daily life as much as commerce did.
| Created / published | 1851 |
|---|---|
| Creator | bachmann, john |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of New Orleans, Louisiana, drawn in 1851. 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--Louisiana |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,220 × 8,418 px · prints to 34 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds' eye view of New-Orleans |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488841 |
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