Brookville, Pennsylvania, 1895 – Antique Map Print
(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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This antique map of Brookville, Pennsylvania, 1895 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania 1895
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Brookville, Pennsylvania, 1895
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Brookville, the county seat of Jefferson County in northwestern Pennsylvania, stood in 1895 at the center of a region still shaped by timber. Lumber milling and bark-tanning works, which drew on the hemlock forests covering the surrounding hills, supplied much of the local employment, and the courthouse, stores, and churches of the borough served farm families and loggers who came in from the outlying townships. The town sat along Sandy Lick Creek, and its fortunes rose and fell with the cutting of the nearby forests, a fact that would have been plain to anyone walking its streets that year. A map drawn at this moment records a community that knew itself mainly as a market and courthouse town in a county whose great timber stands were already being harvested.
| Created / published | 1895 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Brookville, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1895. 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 | 9,008 × 6,208 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania 1895 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490503 |
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