Pen Argyl, 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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Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, 1894 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: Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania 1894
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Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, 1894
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Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, in Northampton County, was a slate-quarrying town in 1894, part of the Lehigh Valley slate belt that supplied roofing and school slate to markets across the country. Many of its workers were Welsh and Scottish immigrants who had brought quarrying skills from the old country, and the town took its name from Argyll in Scotland. Quarry pits, rail sidings, and the workers' rows of houses shaped daily life, and the mines' rhythms of shift work and seasonal layoffs set the pace for families and churches. Residents would have known Pen Argyl first as a slate town, with its fortunes tied closely to the quarry companies and to the railroads that carried finished stone away.
| 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 Pen Argyl, 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 | 8,504 × 5,632 px · prints to 28 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania 1894 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490612 |
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