Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1877 – 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 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1877 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bethlehem and South Bethlehem, Pa. Looking north east
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1877
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1877 was two communities on either side of the Lehigh River: the older Moravian town founded in 1741, and South Bethlehem, where the Bethlehem Iron Company had grown up around its works beside the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Asa Packer, the railroad promoter who had helped build the Lehigh Valley line, had founded Lehigh University in South Bethlehem in 1865, and the college was still young and small. The Moravian community kept its old traditions alive, including its church, its schools for girls, and its long-established religious choirs, so residents of the two sides of the river lived with very different rhythms. Mills, foundries, and rail traffic shaped daily life, and the town's growth in the years after the Civil War depended on the iron and railroad work that drew new workers to the valley.
| Created / published | 1877 |
|---|---|
| Creator | rudd, g. a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1877. 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 | 6,608 × 4,928 px · prints to 22 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bethlehem and South Bethlehem, Pa. Looking north east |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490500 |
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