Jacksonville, Florida, 1893 – 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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A window into the past: Jacksonville, Florida, 1893, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Jacksonville, Florida
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Jacksonville, Florida, 1893
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Jacksonville in 1893 was a busy river city on the St. Johns, where cargo ships, lumber schooners, and phosphate barges crowded the wharves and the railroad yards sent freight and winter visitors in from the north. The city had recently recovered from the yellow fever epidemic of 1888, and residents still spoke of that summer as a turning point in public health. Electric streetcars began running through the streets in 1893, changing how people moved between downtown shops and the new residential neighborhoods spreading north and west of the core. The national financial panic that year slowed building and hit local banks and merchants hard, so families who lived through it would have measured the year by its jobs lost and its new trolley lines.
| Created / published | 1893 |
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| Creator | hudson-kimberly pub. co, koch, augustus |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Jacksonville, Florida, drawn in 1893. 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 | 11,930 × 8,960 px · prints to 40 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Jacksonville, Florida |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488251 |
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