Harrisville, West Virginia, 1899 – 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 Harrisville, West Virginia, 1899, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Harrisville, Ritchie County, W.Va. 1899
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Harrisville, West Virginia, 1899
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Harrisville, the seat of Ritchie County in north central West Virginia, was a small courthouse town in 1899, set among the hills along the Hughes River. The surrounding county lived mainly by farming and timber, with sawmills turning local hardwood into lumber, and in the 1890s the search for natural gas and oil brought drillers and leaseholders into the region. Life in town centered on the courthouse, the churches and the stores where farm families came in from the creek valleys to trade and transact county business. West Virginia had become a state only in 1863, and its county seats like Harrisville still depended on court days and market trade to bring people together.
| Created / published | 1899 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Harrisville, West Virginia, drawn in 1899. 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--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,512 × 4,112 px · prints to 22 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Harrisville, Ritchie County, W.Va. 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491496 |
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