Edwardsville, Pennsylvania, 1892 – 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: Edwardsville, Pennsylvania, 1892, 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: Edwardsville, Pa. 1892
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Edwardsville, Pennsylvania, 1892
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Edwardsville, Pennsylvania, in 1892 was a river borough on the west bank of the Susquehanna, facing Kingston across the water in the Wyoming Valley, one of the heart of the anthracite coal region. Its working life revolved around the collieries and the breaker buildings that sorted coal from rock, and the mines drew families from Wales, Ireland, Germany, and eastern and southern Europe to the valley's crowded streets. Rail lines carried the hard coal out to markets in eastern cities, so the mines' rhythms of shift whistles, payday, and seasonal layoffs set the pace of daily life. Residents in 1892 would have known Edwardsville first as a mining community tied to the river and to its larger neighbor, Wilkes-Barre, just upriver.
| Created / published | 1892 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Edwardsville, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1892. 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 | 7,856 × 5,248 px · prints to 26 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Edwardsville, Pa. 1892 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490533 |
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