Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1888 – 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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Step back in time with Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1888, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 1888
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1888
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Gettysburg in 1888 was a town of a few thousand people, still shaped by the battle that had passed through it a quarter century earlier. Visitors arriving by rail filled the hotels and boarding houses along Baltimore Street, and veterans returning to the ridges made the fields west and south of town feel busy in a new way. Northern states had begun raising monuments across the farmland, so that country lanes were slowly becoming a landscape of granite and bronze. Daily life still centered on the square, the county courthouse, Pennsylvania College on its hill, and the Lutheran Theological Seminary, whose students and professors gave the town its scholarly character. Farmers from the surrounding Adams County countryside still brought grain and produce to market, while fruit orchards on the edges of town were becoming an important part of the local economy.
| Created / published | 1888 |
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| Creator | downs, a. e. (albert e.), fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1888. 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 | 11,913 × 8,096 px · prints to 40 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 1888 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490548 |
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