Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, 1893 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, 1893 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Fleetwood, Berks County, Pennsylvania
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, 1893
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Fleetwood, a small borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, appears in this 1893 bird's-eye view at a moment of hard times for the wider region. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, whose lines and shops ran through Berks County and whose Reading headquarters anchored the local economy, entered receivership in early 1893 as the national Panic of 1893 spread. Mills, furnaces, and rail-linked workshops across the area cut hours or closed, and families in towns like Fleetwood felt the slowdown in their wages and their savings. Residents of the time would have known the place through its streets, churches, and the daily movement of freight and commuters along the rail corridors that tied it to Reading and Philadelphia.
| Created / published | 1893 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1893. 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 | 6,632 × 4,552 px · prints to 22 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Fleetwood, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490542 |
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