Millersville, Pennsylvania, 1894 – 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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A window into the past: Millersville, Pennsylvania, 1894, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Millersville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1894
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Millersville, Pennsylvania, 1894
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Millersville, a small borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was in 1894 a town shaped by its farms and its school. Surrounding fields of corn, wheat, and tobacco fed the county's markets, and many residents were of Pennsylvania German descent, with families who had farmed the limestone valleys for generations. The Millersville State Normal School, which trained teachers for the state's classrooms, gave the town much of its identity, and its students, faculty, and campus buildings were a visible presence on the streets. Life in the borough centered on churches, local merchants, and the rhythms of the school year, while the wider county looked to Lancaster for rail connections, commerce, and news.
| Created / published | 1894 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Millersville, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1894. 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 | 8,528 × 5,344 px · prints to 28 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Millersville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1894 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490582 |
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