Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, 1916 – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, 1916. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania 1916
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Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, 1916
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In 1916, Pen Argyl was a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, still organized around the slate quarries that gave the Lehigh Valley its name in the roofing trade. Europe's war had sent large orders to American manufacturers, and slate yards in the region kept crews busy, though output rose and fell with contracts and the weather. Quarry hands and mill workers lived on the streets shown here, and the borough's churches, stores, and schools served neighborhoods drawn from several nationalities. The drawing captures the town just before the United States entered the war in April 1917, when its pace of work and daily routines were still set by the quarries.
| Created / published | 1916 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hughes & bailey, fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1916. 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 | 10,712 × 5,760 px · prints to 36 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania 1916 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490613 |
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