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Birds eye view of Philadelphia – Vintage Map Wall Art

Birds eye view of Philadelphia, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1875. — antique lithograph
Birds eye view of Philadelphia, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1875.. Antique lithograph from the Philadelphia collection.

(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: Birds eye view of Philadelphia, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Philadelphia appears here from above, in a bird's-eye lithograph that lets the eye travel across the whole city at once. Currier & Ives, the New York firm better known for its sporting and farm scenes, issued the print in 1875, the year before the Centennial Exhibition drew crowds to Fairmount Park. Bird's-eye views were popular after the Civil War because they packed a city's streets, rivers and church spires into one sheet, and hand coloring gave each impression its own tints.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1875.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand col.
GenreLithographs Hand colored 1870-1888.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0592.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,180 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174145

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