Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1890 – 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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Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1890 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Valley Forge, Pa. 1890
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Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1890
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In 1890, Valley Forge was a quiet crossroads village on the Schuylkill River in southeastern Pennsylvania, where farms and small mills stood along Valley Creek. Most residents would have known the place for the winter of 1777 and 1778, when George Washington's Continental Army camped there and lost many men to cold, hunger, and disease before emerging as a stronger force. By the late 1880s, local people and veterans' groups were pressing to preserve the encampment grounds from the farms and quarries that were spreading across them. The surrounding countryside still depended on agriculture and the iron trade that had long run along the valley, while nearby towns and rail lines carried goods and visitors to Philadelphia, about twenty miles away.
| Created / published | 1890 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., downs, a. e. (albert e.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1890. 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 | 8,328 × 6,224 px · prints to 28 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Valley Forge, Pa. 1890 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490670 |
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