New Martinsville, West Virginia, 1899 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures New Martinsville, West Virginia, 1899 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: New Martinsville, West Virginia 1899
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
New Martinsville, West Virginia, 1899
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
New Martinsville, the seat of Wetzel County in northern West Virginia, sat on a bend of the Ohio River in 1899, and its waterfront was still its main link to the outside world. Steamboats and barges carried coal, farm goods, and manufactured wares up and down the river, and the town's streets ran back from the water toward the hills. Through the 1890s, natural gas and oil drilling spread across Wetzel County, bringing wells, pipelines, and outside investment to the region and drawing workers into a local economy that had long relied on farming and river trade. Residents of the day would have known the town as a quiet river seat where county courts, churches, and the new industry of the gas fields were all beginning to reshape daily life.
| Created / published | 1899 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of New Martinsville, West Virginia, drawn in 1899. 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--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,704 × 5,760 px · prints to 26 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | New Martinsville, West Virginia 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491501 |
More from the Panoramic Maps collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
