Martins Ferry, Ohio, 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Martins Ferry, Ohio, 1899. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Martin's Ferry, Ohio 1899
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Martins Ferry, Ohio, 1899
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Martins Ferry, on the Ohio River's eastern bank in Belmont County, sat directly across from Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1899. Its economy rested on the river and the ground beneath it. Iron and nail works, glass houses, and the coal mines of the surrounding hills gave the town much of its payroll, and steamboats and the rail lines running along the valley carried its goods to market. Residents of the day would have known it as a working river town, its streets shaped by the mills and the water, with the constant threat of spring floods shaping daily life along the bank. The map records that landscape street by street, showing how closely houses, churches, and industrial sites crowded together between the hillside and the river.
| 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 Martins Ferry, Ohio, 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--Ohio |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,272 × 6,280 px · prints to 28 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Martin's Ferry, Ohio 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490279 |
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