Salem, West Virginia, 1899 – Antique Map Print
(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: Salem, West Virginia, 1899, 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: Salem, West Virginia 1899
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Salem, West Virginia, 1899
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Salem, in Harrison County, sat in the hill country of north-central West Virginia in 1899, a little more than three decades after the state separated from Virginia during the Civil War. The town's identity was shaped by the Seventh Day Baptist congregation that had long anchored the community, and by Salem College, the denomination's school, which by then gave the town an academic character unusual for its size. Like much of the surrounding county, Salem depended on farming, small commerce, and the timber and coal extraction that drew investment and workers across the Monongahela watershed. The map records each street, church, and school as residents of the period would have known them, at a moment when rail connections and mining were slowly changing the pace of life in these hills.
| Created / published | 1899 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Salem, West Virginia, drawn in 1899. 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 | 7,088 × 4,320 px · prints to 24 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Salem, West Virginia 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491507 |
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