Morgantown, West Virginia, 1897 – 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 Morgantown, West Virginia, 1897 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.
Library of Congress record: Morgantown, West Virginia 1897
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Morgantown, West Virginia, 1897
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Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1897 was a river town of a few thousand people, set on the Monongahela and serving as the seat of Monongalia County. Its economy rested on coal mined in the surrounding hills, on river and rail shipping, and on the glass and small manufacturing works that clustered near the water. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had reached the town decades earlier, linking local farms and mines to markets east and west. The town was also home to the state university, which gave Morgantown a college-town character that residents counted among its chief distinctions. This view records the streets, church spires, and riverfront as they stood at the close of the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Morgantown, West Virginia, drawn in 1897. 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 | 9,328 × 5,968 px · prints to 31 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Morgantown, West Virginia 1897 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491499 |
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