Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1926 – 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: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1926, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Hammond's bird's-eye view map of Philadelphia and vicinity
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1926
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Philadelphia in 1926 was hosting the Sesquicentennial International Exposition, which opened that June at League Island in South Philadelphia to mark 150 years since the Declaration of Independence. The celebration turned residents' attention to the city's colonial past, even as its mills, shipyards and locomotive works still employed much of its workforce. The population had passed 1.8 million in the 1920 census, and rowhouse blocks, trolley lines and new commercial streets kept spreading outward from Center City. Many residents followed the building along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, a broad diagonal avenue then taking shape on the city's northwest side.
| Created / published | 1926 |
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| Creator | spofford, edward w., c.s. hammond & company |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1926. 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 | 7,512 × 5,224 px · prints to 25 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Hammond's bird's-eye view map of Philadelphia and vicinity |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490622 |
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