Atlanta, Georgia, 1892 – 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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A window into the past: Atlanta, Georgia, 1892, preserved in this antique map. 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 Atlanta, Fulton Co., State capital, Georgia
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Atlanta, Georgia, 1892
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Atlanta in 1892 was a city of roughly 65,000 people, growing fast and reaching for a larger place in the New South. That January, pharmacist Asa G. Candler incorporated The Coca-Cola Company here, a small firm that would soon outgrow its downtown quarters and sell far beyond Georgia. The Georgia School of Technology, opened in 1888, was still young, training engineers for the factories and streetcar lines that were reshaping the city. Downtown streets were lined with wholesale houses, hotels, and cotton and rail offices, and residents were beginning to see Atlanta as a metropolis rather than only a railroad town.
| Created / published | 1892 |
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| Creator | hughes litho. co, saunders and kline, koch, augustus |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Atlanta, Georgia, 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--Georgia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 15,419 × 10,220 px · prints to 51 × 34 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Atlanta, Fulton Co., State capital, Georgia |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488314 |
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