Macungie, Pennsylvania, 1893 – 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 Macungie, Pennsylvania, 1893, 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: Macungie, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 1893
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Macungie, Pennsylvania, 1893
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Macungie, a small borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, was in 1893 a farm town at the edge of the Lehigh Valley, where many residents spoke Pennsylvania German at home and worshipped in churches founded by their ancestors. Its economy rested on grain, dairy, and livestock sold to nearby markets, while the larger manufacturing centers of Allentown and the cement works along the Lehigh River drew away some of its young workers. Rail lines running through the valley linked the town to Reading, Allentown, and Philadelphia, making it a convenient stop for farmers and travelers but never a major industrial place. A map drawn that year therefore shows a community defined less by factories than by its streets of brick and frame houses, its churches, and the fields that lay just beyond them.
| Created / published | 1893 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Macungie, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1893. 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 | 6,616 × 4,424 px · prints to 22 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Macungie, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 1893 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490571 |
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