Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1901 – 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.)
Description
Step back in time with Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1901, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1901
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Allentown, Pennsylvania, is the subject here, and the map gives a street-by-street view of the city as it stood in 1901. Its artist worked the way many panoramic mapmakers did, walking the town and sketching each building from an imagined height above the rooftops before the finished lithograph was sold to residents by subscription. Between the 1860s and the 1920s, roughly five thousand American towns were recorded in this manner, and for many of them a map like this is the fullest visual record that survives. Examining the individual lots, streets and landmarks gives a close look at how a Pennsylvania industrial city was laid out at the turn of the twentieth century.
| Created / published | 1901 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Allentown, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1901. 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 | 16,759 × 13,965 px · prints to 56 × 47 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490491 |
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