Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1879 – 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 Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1879. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1879
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Allentown, the county seat of Lehigh County in eastern Pennsylvania, was in 1879 a town of iron, rail, and canal traffic. Its ironworks and rolling mills drew workers from surrounding farms and from abroad, while the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the older Lehigh Canal carried coal and manufactured goods out of the valley. The town had been shaped by Pennsylvania German settlers since the eighteenth century, and churches and family farms still set much of its everyday rhythm alongside the new factory districts. Residents would have known Allentown as a place where furnace fires and train whistles ran through the day, and the brick rows and church spires on this map show a community growing quickly from its old market-town core.
| Created / published | 1879 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Allentown, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1879. 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 | 8,080 × 6,424 px · prints to 27 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490490 |
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