Pottsvile, Pennsylvania, 1833 – 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 rare antique map captures Pottsvile, Pennsylvania, 1833 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Pottsvile, Pennsylvania, 1833
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Pottsville, Pennsylvania, in 1833 was a young borough in the anthracite coal country of Schuylkill County, which had been organized in 1811. John Pott laid out the town in 1806, and its fortunes rose with the coal beneath the surrounding hills. The Schuylkill Canal, opened in 1825, gave mine operators a water route toward Philadelphia, so shipping coal was the town's chief business. Merchants, mine owners, and boatmen filled its streets, drawing workers and traders from the outlying mining villages. Within about a decade a railroad would reach the valley and change the coal trade again, but in 1833 the canal was the lifeline Pottsville depended on.
| Created / published | 1833 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Pottsvile, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1833. 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 |
| Original scan | 5,808 × 4,256 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490633 |
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