Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1888 – 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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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1888 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Philadelphia in 1888
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1888
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Philadelphia in 1888 had passed 800,000 residents by the 1880 census, and its factories still turned out a wide range of goods, from locomotives and textiles to refined sugar and clothing. The Pennsylvania Railroad had opened its Broad Street Station in 1881, and trains from there carried commuters and freight while piers along the Schuylkill and Delaware handled coal and grain. In March, the Great Blizzard of 1888 buried the city in deep drifts, halted streetcars, and left residents digging out for days. Many Philadelphians measured their city by its workshops and by the rowhouse blocks spreading outward from Center City, the neighborhoods this map sets down in fine detail.
| Created / published | 1888 |
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| Creator | burk & mcfetridge |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1888. 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 | 10,736 × 6,256 px · prints to 36 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Philadelphia in 1888 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490620 |
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