Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, 1898 – 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: Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, 1898, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania
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Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, 1898
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Sinking Spring, a small borough in Berks County a few miles west of Reading, takes its name from a spring that drains into the limestone ground nearby. In 1898 the town was closely tied to Reading's economy, where Philadelphia and Reading Railroad shops, iron foundries, knitting mills, and cigar factories employed workers from the surrounding countryside. Many residents were of Pennsylvania German descent, and their farms, churches, and village businesses set the rhythm of daily life along the local roads. The late 1890s brought steady growth to the Reading area as rail freight and manufacturing expanded, though the borough remained modest in size beside its larger neighbor.
| Created / published | 1898 |
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| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1898. 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 | 4,432 × 3,416 px · prints to 15 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490650 |
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