Sistersville, West Virginia, 1896 – 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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A window into the past: Sistersville, West Virginia, 1896, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Sistersville, West Virginia 1896
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Sistersville, West Virginia, 1896
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Sistersville, a river town on the Ohio in Tyler County, West Virginia, was in the middle of an oil boom in 1896. Drilling in the surrounding hills had started only a few years earlier, and by the mid-1890s derricks, storage tanks, and refining works crowded the town's edges and drew workers, speculators, and investors from across the region. Steamboats and barges moved oil and supplies along the Ohio, while the population grew faster than housing and streets could keep up. Residents knew Sistersville as one of the liveliest oil towns on the upper Ohio, where fortunes could rise or collapse with each new well.
| Created / published | 1896 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Sistersville, West Virginia, drawn in 1896. 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--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,656 × 5,136 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Sistersville, West Virginia 1896 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491508 |
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