City of Washington Statistical Map No. 3, Street Pavements, January 1st 1882 – Antique Map Print
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City of Washington Statistical Map No. 3, Street Pavements, January 1st 1882 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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City of Washington Statistical Map No. 3, Street Pavements, January 1st 1882
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A street-by-street survey of Washington's roadways, this 1882 statistical map is a rare document of how the capital's streets were paved in the years after the Civil War. Its color-coded lines distinguish the surfaces of the city's thoroughfares, such as asphalt, granite block, wooden block, and macadam, which would have been a matter of real public concern to residents and city engineers. The map was compiled as part of an effort to catalog municipal infrastructure, and it shows how unevenly the city's improvements were distributed across its grid. Today it is valued by researchers of urban planning and the built environment.
| Original scan | 7,841 × 5,536 px · prints to 26 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | cs000004 |
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