Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1894 – 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 Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1894 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Columbia, Pennsylvania 1894
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1894
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, sat on the west bank of the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County in 1894, a town whose fortunes rested on water and rail. The Pennsylvania Railroad ran through it, and its shops and yards employed many local men, while the older canal and river trade had once carried coal, lumber and grain south toward Chesapeake Bay. Cigar making was among the town's main employers, with workers filling shops and factories along its streets. Residents still remembered June 1863, when Union troops burned the long covered bridge to Wrightsville to slow the Confederate advance, an event that shaped how townspeople thought of their river crossing for years afterward.
| 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 Columbia, 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 | 8,288 × 6,112 px · prints to 28 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Columbia, Pennsylvania 1894 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490518 |
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