Bird’s-eye View Anniston – 1888

Historical 1888 panoramic map of Anniston

This antique cartographic print displays a detailed 1888 bird’s-eye view of Anniston, Alabama, subtitled as the “Model City of the South” during its late-nineteenth-century industrial boom. Drawn and published by panoramic artist Henry Wellge, the monochromatic illustration presents a southwest-facing perspective that captures the city’s organized urban grid, expanding residential neighborhoods, commercial districts, and prominent civic buildings nestled against a dramatic backdrop of rolling mountain ridges.

Anniston industrial growth and infrastructure

The lower margin features an extensive bilingual reference index identifying numerous local churches, public schools, hotels, and key manufacturing sites like the Anniston Pipe Works and local iron furnaces. The detailed landscape highlights the heavy industrial infrastructure of the era, showcasing active factory smokeestacks, extensive railway lines servicing the valley, and organized agricultural groves that defined the economic landscape managed by the Anniston City Land Company.