Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, 1895 – 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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A window into the past: Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, 1895, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Johnsonburg, Elk County, Pennsylvania
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Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, 1895
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Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, in 1895 was a lumber and tanning town in Elk County, in the northwestern part of the state, where the forests of hemlock and hardwood had drawn sawmills and bark-fed tanneries to the banks of the Clarion River. Work in those years followed the timber: crews cut the trees, teams hauled logs to the water, and mill whistles set the pace of daily life. Like many towns in the region, Johnsonburg was still shaped by the boom that had brought its first settlers and businesses, and residents measured their prospects by how long the nearby forests would last. A map drawn that year records the streets, churches, and works as they stood at the height of that cutting, before the best timber was gone.
| Created / published | 1895 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1895. 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 | 8,632 × 5,608 px · prints to 29 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Johnsonburg, Elk County, Pennsylvania |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490566 |
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