St. Augustine, Florida, 1855 – Antique Map Print
(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 St. Augustine, Florida, 1855 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: View of St. Augustine, East Florida
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St. Augustine, Florida, 1855
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St. Augustine, Florida, in 1855 was a small, old town of roughly a few thousand people, founded by Spanish settlers in 1565 and still laid out along its narrow streets and plazas from the colonial period. Florida had become a state only in 1845, and the city's economy rested on local trade, fishing, the government offices of St. Johns County, and a visiting trade of invalids and winter travelers who came for the mild air and sea breezes. The Castillo de San Marcos, the Spanish masonry fort on the waterfront, was then under United States control and was known locally as Fort Marion. Residents of the town would have recognized the map's church spires, the old city gates, and the harbor frontage as the setting of their daily lives, long before the railroad and the grand hotels of the 1880s transformed the place.
| Created / published | 1855 |
|---|---|
| Creator | horton, john s. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Augustine, Florida, drawn in 1855. 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 | 17,024 × 1,616 px · prints to 57 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of St. Augustine, East Florida |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488256 |
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