Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, 1890 – 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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Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, 1890 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Birdsboro, Berks County, Pa. 1890
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Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, 1890
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Birdsboro, a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, stood on the Schuylkill River's tributary valley in 1890, when its economy still rested heavily on iron. The river, nearby ore beds, and charcoal and coal fuel supplies had long drawn ironmasters to the district, and the furnaces and forges around town gave work to many of the families whose houses fill the map's streets. Like other small industrial boroughs of eastern Pennsylvania, Birdsboro was growing in population as workers arrived from the surrounding farms and from abroad, and its churches, schools, and volunteer fire companies were the institutions residents leaned on most. The map records that world at its own scale: the mills by the water, the rowhouses climbing the slopes, and the rail and road lines that carried the town's iron to markets in Philadelphia and beyond.
| Created / published | 1890 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., downs, a. e. (albert e.), fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1890. 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 | 7,592 × 5,448 px · prints to 25 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birdsboro, Berks County, Pa. 1890 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490501 |
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