Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cedar Key, Florida 1884

Cedar Key, Florida 1884

 * Reason:A high resolution historic lithograph of a town listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, created before an 1896s hurricane and fire destroyed many of the original structures. Every major building in town is identified.
 * Articles this image appears in:Cedar Key, Florida
 * Creator:Stoner, J. J.


 * Support as nominator -- Durova Charge! 10:11, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Nice one --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 14:56, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Support A high quality scan, I like the detail. Question: How did J.J. Stoner get the view for the lithograph? Looking at the other images in the article, and on commons, there isn't a high view to get a vantage point like this.  Spencer T♦C 01:49, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Lithographs of American cityscapes were fairly common during this era. I'm not certain of the techniques that were used--specualtion here, but possibly a composite of maps and sketches from an observation balloon.  Durova Charge! 06:20, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah. That's interesting. Thanks,  Spencer T♦C 10:57, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Nice find; I like a detail of it. M.K. (talk) 21:13, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Interesting font used in the publisher note. Matt Deres (talk) 15:49, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment If you zoom enough, in the middle, there's a building that looks like its floating in the water. Pie is good   (Apple is the best)  01:02, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

MER-C 10:11, 7 October 2008 (UTC)