Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876
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Philadelphia in 1876 was hosting the Centennial Exhibition, which opened in May in Fairmount Park to mark the nation's hundredth birthday. Its grounds held Machinery Hall, where a large Corliss steam engine drove the building's shafts and belts, and visitors by the millions crossed the park on foot and by rail. The exhibition drew close to ten million paying guests before it closed in November, and many of them rode the city's horsecars and trains to reach it. Downtown, the streets this map records were filling with hotels, boarding houses and extra trade for visitors, and Philadelphians saw the fair as a chance to show their industry to the country.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1876. 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 |
| Original scan | 11,232 × 8,352 px · prints to 37 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490619 |
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