St Marys, West Virginia, 1899 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures St Marys, West Virginia, 1899 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: St. Mary's, West Virginia 1899
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St Marys, West Virginia, 1899
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St. Marys, the county seat of Pleasants County in northwestern West Virginia, sat on the Ohio River in 1899 as a small river town whose fortunes rested on steamboat traffic, farming, and the trade that moved along the water. Pleasants County had been formed in 1851 from parts of Wood and Tyler counties, and by the late 1890s the courthouse, churches, and storefronts served a rural population spread across the surrounding hills and bottomland. As with many Ohio River towns of the period, daily life followed the river's moods, since high water brought boats and merchandise while low water could leave cargo stranded on the landing. Residents would have known St. Marys as a quiet market and courthouse town, where news from the wider state and nation usually arrived by river packet and by mail.
| 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 St Marys, West Virginia, 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--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,368 × 3,712 px · prints to 21 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | St. Mary's, West Virginia 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491509 |
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