Royersford, Pennsylvania, 1893 – 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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A window into the past: Royersford, Pennsylvania, 1893, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Royersford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 18[9]3
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Royersford, Pennsylvania, 1893
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Royersford, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, sat on the Schuylkill River in 1893, in the upper Schuylkill valley where iron, coal, and river trade had long shaped local work. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad ran through the valley, carrying coal and manufactured goods toward Philadelphia, and nearby Phoenixville's iron works drew many of the region's workers. That spring the Panic of 1893 began spreading through the country, and mills and furnaces along the Schuylkill faced slowdowns and layoffs as credit tightened. Residents of the borough would have known their town as a small river and rail community, where churches, storefronts, and the rail depot formed the center of daily life.
| Created / published | 1893 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Royersford, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1893. 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 | 7,440 × 5,304 px · prints to 25 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Royersford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 18[9]3 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490642 |
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