{"product_id":"washington-dc-in-1862","title":"Washington, D.C. in 1862 - Georgetown, Capitol Hill, the Navy Yard","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlvin Jewett Johnson of New York published this map of Georgetown and the City of Washington in 1862, part of his New Illustrated Family Atlas, the firm that grew directly out of J. H. Colton's business after Johnson and his partner Ross Browning acquired the rights to Colton's existing map plates and converted them from steel engraving to lithographic stone, allowing cheaper, wider distribution. This sheet is one of the most decorative commercial atlas maps of Washington to appear during the Civil War, framed with insets depicting several of the city's public monuments alongside the main plan. It captures the capital in the second year of the war, a city transformed almost overnight from a sleepy Southern town into a fortified garrison ringed with earthworks and crowded with soldiers, hospitals, and the machinery of the Union war effort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorgetown, the older port town on the Potomac that predates the federal city itself, anchors the map's western edge, its wharves and warehouses still handling much of the flour and produce moving down the river. Capitol Hill, crowned by the still-unfinished dome of the Capitol building, sits at the heart of the federal city's diagonal avenue plan laid out by Pierre L'Enfant. The Navy Yard, on the Anacostia River in the city's southeast, appears as one of the war's busiest military installations, building and repairing gunboats for the Union blockade. The map's decorative monument insets round out a plan that captures Washington at the exact moment its wartime population was swelling far beyond its prewar size.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map is a fitting gift for a Washington, D.C. or Georgetown family, a history-minded transplant, or a collector of Civil War-era capital maps. The store also carries Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr.'s 1863 plan of the city; that companion sheet, issued a year later, is organized by city wards rather than Johnson's decorative monument insets, offering a useful comparison of how two rival publishers depicted the wartime capital within a single year of each other. It is available unframed in a range of sizes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532483694923,"sku":"SKU1990-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532483727691,"sku":"SKU1990-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532483760459,"sku":"SKU1990-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532483793227,"sku":"SKU1990-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532483825995,"sku":"SKU1990-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532483858763,"sku":"SKU1990-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532483891531,"sku":"SKU1990-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532483924299,"sku":"SKU1990-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532483957067,"sku":"SKU1990-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1990.jpg?v=1789850542","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/washington-dc-in-1862","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}