Erie, Pennsylvania, 1870 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Erie, Pennsylvania, 1870. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania 1870
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Erie, Pennsylvania, 1870
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Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1870 was a lake port of roughly 19,000 people on the south shore of Lake Erie, with a economy built on shipping, grain, lumber and iron. The Philadelphia and Erie Railroad had reached the city in 1864, linking it to eastern markets, while the Erie Extension Canal, opened in 1844, still brought freight from inland Pennsylvania to the harbor. Foundries and machine shops along the waterfront employed many of the town's workers, and wharves at the foot of the principal streets loaded cargo bound for Buffalo, Cleveland and other lake ports. Residents knew their town by its harbor and by the sandy peninsula of Presque Isle curving out into the lake.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner, chicago lithographing co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Erie, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1870. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,368 × 6,797 px · prints to 35 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania 1870 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490537 |
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