Bird’s-eye view · 1872

Drie’s bird’s-eye view, 1872

Bird’s eye view of the city of Charleston, South Carolina 1872

The most useful sheet in this catalog for anyone trying to picture the city the photographers worked in. Seven years after the war and ten before the renumbering, every building on the peninsula is drawn in perspective — King Street shopfront by shopfront, the burnt district still legible, the steeples where they had been in every photograph on this site.

It is postwar, and it is listed as postwar. It is here because it shows the wartime city more clearly than any wartime map does.

What is on the sheet

  • every building in the city, drawn in perspective
  • an index to points of interest

The catalog’s own notes

Includes illustrations and index to points of interest. Library of Congress, Panoramic maps of cities in the United States and Canada (2nd ed.), 883.

Places

King Street Meeting Street The Battery

The record

Title, as catalogedBird’s eye view of the city of Charleston, South Carolina 1872
Title used hereDrie’s bird’s-eye view, 1872
MakerC. N. Drie
Date, as cataloged1872
KindBird’s-eye view
Scaleperspective map, not drawn to scale
Mediumcolored map
Dimensions53 x 85 cm
CollectionPanoramic Maps
Call numberG3914.C3A3 1872 .D7
Image served byLibrary of Congress
RightsPublic domain
Rights statement, verbatimThe content of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division digitized collections is free to use and reuse unless a Rights Advisory statement is present that indicates otherwise. Credit Line: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Credit lineLibrary of Congress, Geography and Map Division
Catalog recordhttps://www.loc.gov/item/75696567/
Last verified2026-08-30

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