North East, Pennsylvania, 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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This rare antique map captures North East, Pennsylvania, 1896 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: North East, Erie County, Pennsylvania, 1896
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North East, Pennsylvania, 1896
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North East, a lakeside town in Erie County, Pennsylvania, sat near the New York state line in 1896, when its fortunes rested largely on the fruit belt that ran along the southern shore of Lake Erie. Vineyards and orchards covered the surrounding slopes, and grapes grown there were shipped by rail to markets in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and farther east. The lines that carried this produce also tied the town to the wider rail network of northwestern Pennsylvania, and the rail yards and depots were places where growers, shippers, and merchants met daily. A bird's-eye view drawn that year records the town's streets, churches, and commercial blocks as they stood at the height of this agricultural boom, when the grape harvest each autumn set the rhythm of local life.
| 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 North East, Pennsylvania, 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--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,728 × 6,064 px · prints to 29 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | North East, Erie County, Pennsylvania, 1896 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490607 |
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