Longwood, Florida, 1885 – 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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Step back in time with Longwood, Florida, 1885, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Longwood, Florida, Orange County 1885
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Longwood, Florida, 1885
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Longwood, Florida, in 1885 was a small settlement in Seminole County, a few miles northwest of Orlando, where the economy rested on orange groves, vegetable farms, and the visitors and settlers drawn south by the state's warm winters. The railroads that had reached central Florida in the early 1880s had opened new markets for fruit and made land near the rail lines more valuable. Northern buyers and invalids who came for the climate were a visible part of local life, and many newcomers bought groves or built winter homes on land that had been pine and scrub only a few years earlier. Shipping still moved by steamboat and wagon, and the citrus trade was exposed to frost, a danger that growers in the region had learned to fear. The town's street pattern and houses, shown here in detail, reflect a community still taking shape in those years.
| Created / published | 1885 |
|---|---|
| Creator | miller, g. a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Longwood, Florida, drawn in 1885. 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 | 10,588 × 6,800 px · prints to 35 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Longwood, Florida, Orange County 1885 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488254 |
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