Cameron, West Virginia, 1899 – 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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A window into the past: Cameron, West Virginia, 1899, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Cameron, West Virginia 1899
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Cameron, West Virginia, 1899
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Cameron, West Virginia, in Marshall County's northern panhandle, was a coal-mining town in 1899, when the surrounding hills were being opened for deep and drift mines. Mining drew workers from across the Appalachians and from Eastern Europe, and camp life revolved around company stores, churches, and the mine whistle. The Ohio River and the rail lines running through the county carried coal to market, while Wheeling, a short distance upriver, was then the largest city in the state, with glassworks, iron mills, and steamboat traffic. A map drawn that year would have shown a community still tied closely to the fortunes of the mines, with its residents knowing the town mainly for the coal that fed their wages.
| Created / published | 1899 |
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| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer), wheeling news lith |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Cameron, West Virginia, drawn in 1899. 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--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,992 × 5,424 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Cameron, West Virginia 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491490 |
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