Ocilla, Georgia, 1908 – 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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This rare antique map captures Ocilla, Georgia, 1908 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Ocilla, Georgia 1908
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Ocilla, Georgia, 1908
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Ocilla, the seat of Irwin County in south Georgia, appears in T. M. Fowler's 1908 bird's-eye view at a time when its fortunes followed the surrounding pine forests and cotton fields. Turpentine distilling, lumber milling, and cotton ginning and warehousing brought farm and timber money into town, and the naval stores trade drawing on the longleaf pine belt shaped much of the regional economy. Most residents farmed, worked in the woods, or kept shops around the courthouse square, and the Coastal Plain soils and rail connections determined what was grown, cut, and shipped out. For country families, the town was where they came to trade, attend church, and hear the news.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ocilla, Georgia, drawn in 1908. 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--Georgia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,320 × 6,496 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Ocilla, Georgia 1908 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488321 |
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