Tidioute, Pennsylvania, 1896 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Tidioute, Pennsylvania, 1896. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Tidioute, Pennsylvania, 1896
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Tidioute, a small borough on the Allegheny River in Warren County, Pennsylvania, looked much as it does on this 1896 view when the oil region around it was in its second generation of work. The Pennsylvania oil boom that began near Titusville in 1859 had sent wells, pipelines, and barrels down the valley for nearly four decades, and Tidioute's river landing handled oil and lumber moving downstream. By the mid-1890s the big gushers were mostly gone, so the town's economy rested on steady pumping, river trade, and the men who worked the wharves and mills. Residents of that year would have known Tidioute as a river town shaped by oil and timber, a place where the Allegheny's water level decided how much cargo could move.
| Created / published | 1896 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Tidioute, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1896. 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 |
| Original scan | 7,712 × 5,200 px · prints to 26 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490659 |
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