Key West, Florida, 1884 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Key West, Florida, 1884. 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 Key West, Fla., Key West Island, C.S. Monroe Co., 1884
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Key West, Florida, 1884
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Key West in 1884 was a island town at the southern end of the Florida Keys, and it ranked among the largest and most prosperous cities in Florida. Cigar manufacturing drove much of its economy, with workshops employing many Cuban and Spanish immigrants who hand-rolled tobacco shipped in from Havana. Sponging, fishing, and trade through its harbor added to the town's commerce, and a U.S. Navy station on the island gave it a military presence. Residents and visitors knew Key West as the southernmost city in the continental United States, a distinction that set it apart from mainland Florida.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), stoner, j. j., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Key West, Florida, drawn in 1884. 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 | 8,935 × 6,129 px · prints to 30 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Key West, Fla., Key West Island, C.S. Monroe Co., 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488252 |
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