Butler, Pennsylvania, 1896 – 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 antique map of Butler, Pennsylvania, 1896 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania, 1896
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Butler, Pennsylvania, 1896
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Butler, Pennsylvania, in 1896 was the seat of Butler County, a farm and small-industry town of several thousand people on Connoquenessing Creek, about thirty miles north of Pittsburgh. The surrounding county had been drawn into the oil and natural gas excitement that began in western Pennsylvania in the 1860s, and drilling rigs and pipeline work shaped local talk about jobs and money. Railroad lines running north and south of town linked Butler's merchants and farmers to Pittsburgh's markets and mills, and the courthouse square was the center of county politics and trade. The bird's-eye view drawn by T. M. Fowler and James B. Moyer that year records the streets, churches, and commercial blocks residents would have recognized as their own town at the close of the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | 1896 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Butler, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1896. 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 | 9,440 × 6,272 px · prints to 31 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania, 1896 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490506 |
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