Norfolk, Virginia, 1892 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Norfolk, Virginia, 1892. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Panorama of Norfolk and surroundings 1892
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Norfolk, Virginia, 1892
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Norfolk, Virginia, in 1892 was a port city of the Elizabeth River, handling cotton, tobacco, and peanuts bound for northern and overseas buyers. Its waterfront was crowded with merchants, dockworkers, and ship chandlers, and the city's trade depended on steamers and the rail lines that met them at the wharves. That year Virginia's voters, like the rest of the nation, went to the polls in a presidential contest, and Democrats carried the state. The map shows the downtown streets, wharves, and churches as they stood at the time, a close record of a city that its residents knew as a commercial gateway to Hampton Roads.
| Created / published | 1892 |
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| Creator | american publishing co. (milwaukee, wis.), wellge, h. (henry) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Norfolk, Virginia, drawn in 1892. 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--Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 12,514 × 7,664 px · prints to 42 × 26 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panorama of Norfolk and surroundings 1892 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491146 |
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