Sellersville, Pennsylvania, 1894 – 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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This antique map of Sellersville, Pennsylvania, 1894 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Sellersville, Bucks County, Pa. 1894
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Sellersville, Pennsylvania, 1894
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Sellersville, a small borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was drawn as a bird's-eye view in 1894, a few years after the Panic of 1893 had squeezed businesses and farm families across eastern Pennsylvania. The town sat in a countryside of general farms, creek-side mills, and households whose ancestors had come from German-speaking lands, and many residents would have known the place first as a market and church center for the surrounding fields. Rail service linked the region to Philadelphia and the larger towns to the north, bringing goods, travelers, and news that kept the borough tied to the wider state. The map's street-by-street detail records the houses, shops, and churches of a community that was still largely shaped by its farming and its craftsmen.
| Created / published | 1894 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Sellersville, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1894. 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 | 7,752 × 4,696 px · prints to 26 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Sellersville, Bucks County, Pa. 1894 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490645 |
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