Planta da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e de uma parte dos suburbios / editores proprietarios Laemmert e Cia ; gravura de Ciesecke & Devrient
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- Created Date
- 1887
- Description
Relief shown by shading. Gift from Board of Foreign Missions, NY 1/26/59.
Rio de Janeiro served as the official capital of the Kingdom of Portugal in the early 1800s. It was the only European capital outside of Europe and many educational institutions were built as a result. The Military Academy, the Royal School of Sciences, Arts and Crafts, the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, as well as the National Library of Braziland and the Botanical Garden are among them. Brazil was declared independent from Portugal in 1822 and Rio de Janeiro was the capital and political center. It became the main state of the abolitionist and republican movements after having served as one of the largest slave ports in the Americas. In 1840, Rio de Janeiro had 220,000 slaves. By the late 1800s, the number of African slaves was drastically reduced and the city was developed, with modern drains, animal trams, train stations across the city, gas and electric lighting, telephone and telegraph wiring, water and river plumbing.
Color
1:20,000
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- Laemmert E Cia
- Subjects
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Maps
- Type
- image
- Language
- English
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Planta da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e de uma parte dos suburbios / editores proprietarios Laemmert e Cia ; gravura de Ciesecke & Devrient. 1887. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/21851. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1887) Planta da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e de uma parte dos suburbios / editores proprietarios Laemmert e Cia ; gravura de Ciesecke & Devrient. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/21851
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/21851>.