Baltimore, Maryland, 1912 – 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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Baltimore, Maryland, 1912 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: A birds-eye view of the heart of Baltimore
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Baltimore, Maryland, 1912
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Baltimore in 1912 had roughly 558,000 residents at the 1910 census, and that July the city hosted the Democratic National Convention, which met in the Fifth Regiment Armory and nominated Woodrow Wilson for president. Hotels and boarding houses filled with delegates while streetcars carried crowds along the main avenues. The harbor still handled grain, flour, and tobacco, and canneries, garment shops, and tobacco works gave steady work to thousands of families. Shipbuilding and repair at the old waterfront districts kept many men employed. Residents would have known their city as both a political stage and a working port, one spreading outward into new streetcar neighborhoods.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Creator | spofford & hughes, spofford, edward w., norman t.a. munder & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Baltimore, Maryland, drawn in 1912. 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--Maryland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,968 × 6,560 px · prints to 33 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | A birds-eye view of the heart of Baltimore |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489105 |
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