Titusville, Pennsylvania, 1871 – Antique Map Print
(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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This antique map of Titusville, Pennsylvania, 1871 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of the city of Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania 1871
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Titusville, Pennsylvania, 1871
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Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1871 was a town remade by oil in little more than a decade. Edwin Drake's well on Oil Creek, drilled in 1859, set off a rush of prospectors, speculators and laborers into the valley, and the streets filled with derricks, storage tanks and teams hauling barrels toward the rail lines. Refineries and shipping firms clustered along the creek and near the depot, and fortunes made and lost within a single season were the common talk of its hotels and offices. Such rapid growth strained boarding houses, roads and public services, so civic leaders pressed ahead with paving, schools and churches to keep pace. Residents of the day knew Titusville above all as the place where the American oil industry began.
| Created / published | 1871 |
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| Creator | chicago lithographing co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Titusville, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1871. 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 | 8,624 × 6,912 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of the city of Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania 1871 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490661 |
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