Archbald, Pennsylvania, 1892 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Archbald, Pennsylvania, 1892 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Archbald, Lackawanna County, Pa. 1892
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Archbald, Pennsylvania, 1892
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Archbald, Pennsylvania, in 1892 was a coal town in the anthracite country of Lackawanna County, a few miles from Scranton, and its economy rose and fell with the collieries and the rail lines that hauled their coal. Miners and laborers came from Wales, Ireland, Italy, and the Slavic lands of Eastern Europe, so the streets held a mix of languages and churches. Mine shafts, breakers, company housing, and railroad sidings shaped daily life, and a boom or a slowdown at the pits could change a family's fortunes within months. The map records that working landscape as it stood at the start of the decade, shortly before the depressed years of the mid-1890s hit the region's mining communities hard.
| Created / published | 1892 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., downs, a. e. (albert e.), fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Archbald, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1892. 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 | 8,240 × 5,456 px · prints to 27 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Archbald, Lackawanna County, Pa. 1892 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490494 |
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