Philippi, 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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Step back in time with Philippi, West Virginia, 1897, an antique map rich in period 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: Bird's eye view of Philippi, West Virginia 1897
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Philippi, West Virginia, 1897
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Philippi, the seat of Barbour County in north-central West Virginia, was a hill-country town of a few thousand people in 1897, two decades after statehood. Its economy rested on farming and the timber cut from surrounding ridges, and sawmills and local merchants supplied the farms and households of the county. The country was still recovering from the Panic of 1893, and money was tight for farm families who sold their wheat, corn, and livestock at low prices. Residents of the town knew it as the county seat, where lawyers, clerks, and officials conducted the business of the county, and where the courthouse and the churches were the center of public life.
| 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 Philippi, 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 | 5,104 × 3,728 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Philippi, West Virginia 1897 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491506 |
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