Havre de Grace, Maryland, 1907 – Antique Wall Map
(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: Havre de Grace, Maryland, 1907, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Havre de Grace, Maryland 1907
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Havre de Grace, Maryland, 1907
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Havre de Grace, Maryland, sat where the Susquehanna River meets the Chesapeake Bay in Harford County, and by 1907 its economy rested on the water and the rails. Shad fishing and the canneries that processed the catch employed many local families, while the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad carried freight and passengers through town and across the river. The Concord Point Lighthouse, standing at the harbor since 1827, marked the town's long ties to bay navigation and was a familiar landmark to anyone arriving by boat. Residents had lived with reminders of the past as well: British forces raided and burned the town during the War of 1812, and it was rebuilt afterward. A map drawn in 1907 records a community that its people knew for its river, its harbor, and its working waterfront.
| Created / published | 1907 |
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| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer), fowler & kelly |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Havre de Grace, Maryland, drawn in 1907. 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--Maryland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,024 × 6,288 px · prints to 23 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Havre de Grace, Maryland 1907 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489110 |
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