The Philadelphia of To-day: The World's Greatest Workshop – Vintage Map Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare antique map captures The Philadelphia of To-day: The World's Greatest Workshop in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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The Philadelphia of To-day: The World's Greatest Workshop
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This view presents Philadelphia as a city of industry, with its title claiming the "World's Greatest Workshop" for the city as it stood at the time. Bird's-eye views like this one were popular in the late 1800s, when a high, sweeping perspective let viewers take in streets, rail lines, factories and public buildings in a single image. Philadelphia's textile mills, machine shops and rail yards made it one of the country's leading manufacturing centers, and the map's boosterish title reflects the civic pride of that era. Look closely at the dense rows of buildings along the river and rail corridors to see how the working city was laid out.
| Original scan | 4,489 × 2,779 px · prints to 15 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | PA-Philadelphia-1908 |
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