Perkasie, 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 Perkasie, Pennsylvania, 1894 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Perkasie, Pennsylvania, Bucks County, 1894
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Perkasie, Pennsylvania, 1894
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Perkasie, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was a small borough in 1894, shaped by its Mennonite and German-descended farming families and by the railroad that linked the surrounding countryside to Philadelphia and the Lehigh Valley. Its streets held churches, schools, stores, and the shops that served farm households, and the town's growth in the late nineteenth century rested on that steady local trade rather than on any single large employer. Residents would have known Perkasie as a quiet, orderly community where civic life centered on the church, the school, and the borough council, and where the rhythms of planting and harvest still set the calendar for many families. The street-by-street drawing of the town records which buildings stood and where, giving a close view of a place that was still largely rural in character at the close of the century.
| 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 Perkasie, 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 | 7,192 × 5,344 px · prints to 24 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Perkasie, Pennsylvania, Bucks County, 1894 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490615 |
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