Rising Sun, Maryland, 1907 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Rising Sun, Maryland, 1907, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland 1907
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Rising Sun, Maryland, 1907
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Rising Sun, a small village in northeastern Cecil County, Maryland, sat near the Pennsylvania and Delaware state lines in 1907. Its economy rested on the surrounding farms, where growers raised grain, dairy cattle, and orchard fruit, and on the rail line that carried those goods toward larger markets to the north and south. Churches, a handful of stores, and modest houses filled the streets, and much of the village's commerce and social life ran along its main road. Residents would have known Rising Sun chiefly as a farming community tied to the railroad, a place where neighbors gathered at church, at the store, and at the depot.
| Created / published | 1907 |
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| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer), fowler & kelly |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Rising Sun, Maryland, drawn in 1907. 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--Maryland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,783 × 5,620 px · prints to 23 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland 1907 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489113 |
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