Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, 1889 – 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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Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, 1889 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1889
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Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, 1889
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Wilkes-Barre, the county seat of Luzerne County, sat on the Susquehanna River in the Wyoming Valley in 1889, and its economy rested on anthracite coal. Mines in the surrounding hills supplied the valley's furnaces, mills, and homes, and rail lines carried the coal out to eastern markets. The city had grown into a crowded river town of roughly twenty thousand people, with its business and civic life centered on the courthouse and the streets that led down to the water. Residents of that day knew the valley as the scene of the 1778 Wyoming Massacre and the long land disputes between Connecticut and Pennsylvania settlers, though by the late 1880s the mines and the railroads shaped daily life far more. This 1889 view shows the town as its people knew it, with the coal trade still setting its pace.
| Created / published | 1889 |
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| Creator | fowler, downs & moyer, downs, a. e. (albert e) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1889. 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 | 13,133 × 8,064 px · prints to 44 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1889 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490676 |
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