Curwensville, Pennsylvania, 1895 – 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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A window into the past: Curwensville, Pennsylvania, 1895, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania 1895
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Curwensville, Pennsylvania, 1895
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Curwensville, a borough on the West Branch of the Susquehanna in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, looked much as this 1895 bird's-eye view shows it at the height of the region's timber boom. Lumber was the town's chief business, with sawmills working the hillsides of the county's hemlock and hardwood forests, and the bark-peeling and tanning trades that followed the lumbermen were also important. Rafts of logs and sawn boards moved down the river, and a rail connection carried freight and passengers out to markets beyond the valley. Residents of the 1890s knew the town as a mill and tannery community whose fortunes rose and fell with the forests around it, and the wooded hills that surrounded its streets were being cut faster than they could regrow.
| Created / published | 1895 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Curwensville, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1895. 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 | 8,208 × 5,088 px · prints to 27 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania 1895 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490523 |
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