Huntsville, Alabama, 1871 – 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: Huntsville, Alabama, 1871, 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: Bird's eye view of the city of Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama 1871
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Huntsville, Alabama, 1871
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Huntsville, Alabama, in 1871 was a cotton town in the Tennessee Valley, still recovering from the Civil War and the Union occupation that had held it from 1862. Its economy rested on cotton grown on the surrounding farms and shipped out over the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, which had run through town since the late 1850s. Reconstruction brought new political disputes and the slow work of founding schools and churches for the Black residents who had been enslaved in the county. Local people knew the town for its Big Spring at the center of downtown and for having been Alabama's first state capital in 1819 and 1820. The street-by-street view records how those streets, rail lines, and buildings stood in the years after the war.
| Created / published | 1871 |
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| Creator | ehrgott & krebs lith, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Huntsville, Alabama, drawn in 1871. 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--Alabama |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,016 × 6,912 px · prints to 27 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama 1871 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487793 |
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