Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, 1894 – 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 Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, 1894. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania, 1894
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Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, 1894
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Wrightsville, on the east bank of the Susquehanna River in York County, was a canal and railroad town in 1894, still living with the loss of its long covered bridge. In June 1863, as Confederate forces advanced toward the river, Pennsylvania militia set fire to the wooden span that linked Wrightsville with Columbia across the water. By the 1890s, many residents earned their wages in cigar factories and shops, and the river traffic and rail lines carried their goods onward. A map drawn at this moment shows a community of brick rows, church spires and mill yards, a place its residents knew chiefly as a river crossing and a working town.
| Created / published | 1894 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Wrightsville, 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 | 6,976 × 5,072 px · prints to 23 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania, 1894 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490681 |
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