DuBois, Pennsylvania, 1895 – 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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This rare antique map captures DuBois, Pennsylvania, 1895 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Du Bois, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, 1895
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DuBois, Pennsylvania, 1895
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In 1895, DuBois was a young lumber and railroad town in Clearfield County, in the hills of west-central Pennsylvania. Its growth followed the timber cut from the surrounding forests and the hemlock bark that tanneries needed, and the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway, which made the town a division point, brought in workers and freight. Mills, shops, and tanning works lined the valley, while churches, schools, and a growing business district served families who had arrived within the last generation. Residents would have known DuBois as a rail and lumber community, a place where the whistles and the smoke of the mills marked the working day, and a map drawn at this moment captures it while the forests were still being cleared.
| 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 DuBois, 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 | 10,624 × 6,000 px · prints to 35 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Du Bois, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, 1895 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490527 |
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