Parsons, West Virginia, 1905 – 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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Parsons, West Virginia, 1905 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: View of Parsons, West Virginia 1905
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Parsons, West Virginia, 1905
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Parsons, the county seat of Tucker County in north-central West Virginia, sat on the Cheat River in 1905, when the surrounding hills were being cut over by the timber companies that drove the regional economy. Logs and tanning bark moved out of the mountains by rail and river, and the town's courthouse, stores, churches, and residences served a population that depended on that trade. Railroad lines linking the upland counties to larger markets had made lumbering profitable only a few years earlier, and the boom brought new money, new workers, and new arguments over who would profit from the forests. A map drawn that year fixes the town at a moment when its streets, business blocks, and houses still reflected that expansion, and the residents of the time would have known Parsons as the mountain seat of a county whose fortunes rose and fell with its timber.
| Created / published | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer), fowler & kelly |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Parsons, West Virginia, drawn in 1905. 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--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,232 × 6,352 px · prints to 24 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Parsons, West Virginia 1905 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491504 |
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