Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania, 1876 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania, 1876 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania, 1876
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Philadelphia in 1876 was a city of more than 700,000 people, the second largest in the United States, and it was readying itself for the Centennial Exposition in Fairmount Park, which opened on May 10 to mark a century since the Declaration of Independence. Its economy rested on textile mills, iron works and the Baldwin Locomotive Works, while railroads and Delaware River wharves carried goods to markets across the country. Residents knew the city for its long rows of brick houses, its grid of streets laid out under William Penn's plan, and the City Hall still rising in stone at center Square. The Centennial drew millions of visitors that summer and autumn, bringing a national spotlight to a city that considered itself the cradle of the republic.
| Created / published | 1876 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1876. 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 | 9,648 × 6,777 px · prints to 32 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490623 |
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