Bird's-eye view of New Castle, Pennsylvania, 1896 – 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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Step back in time with Bird's-eye view of New Castle, Pennsylvania, 1896, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: New Castle, Pennsylvania 1896
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Bird's-eye view of New Castle, Pennsylvania, 1896
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Drawn from an elevated angle, this 1896 bird's-eye view shows New Castle, a manufacturing city in Lawrence County in western Pennsylvania, with its streets, rail lines, and riverside industry laid out as if seen from above. Panoramic maps like this one, drafted by James B. Moyer and T. M. Fowler, were popular in the late 1800s as civic portraits that promoted growing towns to residents and investors. The city's steel and tinplate works were central to its economy at the time, so the map's dense rows of factories and workers' houses offer a useful record of how the community was organized.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 5,040 × 2,846 px · prints to 17 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | New Castle, Pennsylvania 1896 |
| Reference | PA-NewCastle-1896 |
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