Philadelphia in 1886
Burk and McFetridge's Birdseye of Philadelphia in 1885 |
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| Date: | 1886 |
| Author: | Burk and McFetridge |
| Dwnld: | Full Size (35.01mb) |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
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This map isn't part of any series, but we have other maps of Pennsylvania that you might want to check out.
I don't like to complain about my first-world problems much, but boy was this Burk & McFetridge birdseye map of Philadelphia a pain in the ass to optimize. It's beautiful, though, so I soldiered through... but all-told I spent a couple hours on this thing.
Never got it perfect, but got it pretty close; if you wanna pick up the baton and wrassle with it, then by all means please do so with my great thanks, and my deep sympathy for the headache you're taking on.
Philadelphia, I hope you like the map. Show the BIG Map Blog some brotherly love and send it along to all of your friends.
For more map resources and imagery from this period in Philadelphia's history, check out the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's website.
The preview pane shows in focus houses, street names, etc. After downloading the 35 MB image, there is no detail like that in the preview pane. Is there a fix?
I’m sorry, Bill, I’m not sure I’m understanding. Lemme try to help you out.
Are you saying that the 35mb JPG file has less detail than the zoom.it zoomable window up top?
The zoom.it window works from the JPG, so the max resolutions for both should be identical. I just looked over the JPG and it looked great. Might be a problem with your image editor? Which program are you using to open the 35mb file?
35mb is rather large, and might choke or slow down a browser window, if that’s what you’re using to view it. Best opened up with a dedicated image editing program (such as Photoshop; or if you’d like a powerful and free alternative, GIMP).
(Mr. Miller got back to me via email. He was able to open the image by using a different viewer [in this case: Windows Photo Gallery]. Possibly of use to others that might have this problem. A 35mb JPEG is a lot to chew on, and some image viewer software might choke on it. If one doesn’t work, you might want to try another.)
Kind regards,
–t59k