Ashtabula, Ohio, 1896 – Antique Map Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Ashtabula, Ohio, 1896. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio 1896
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Ashtabula, Ohio, 1896
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Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1896 was a lake port on the Lake Erie shore, where the Ashtabula River meets the harbor and where iron ore arriving by ship from the upper Great Lakes was unloaded onto railcars bound for steel mills in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Several railroad lines crossed the town, and its docks, rail yards, and harbor shaped daily work for many residents. The town still carried the memory of the December 1876 disaster, when a railroad bridge over the river gave way under a passenger train and killed dozens of people, a tragedy that was discussed for decades afterward. The map's view of the streets, churches, and industrial waterfront would have been familiar to townspeople as the place where they worked, shipped goods, and kept their civic life.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ashtabula, Ohio, 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--Ohio |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,008 × 6,448 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio 1896 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490257 |
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