Franklin, Pennsylvania, 1901 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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This rare antique map captures Franklin, Pennsylvania, 1901 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: View of the city of Franklin, Pa., 1901
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Franklin, Pennsylvania, 1901
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Franklin, the seat of Venango County in northwestern Pennsylvania, sat on the Allegheny River in 1901, a town shaped by the oil country that surrounded it. The region had been the center of the American petroleum boom since the late 1850s, when the first commercial oil well was drilled nearby, and Franklin served as a supply, refining, and business hub for the wells and pipelines spreading through the surrounding hills. Its streets, churches, and commercial blocks reflected a county seat with courthouse politics, local newspapers, and a population that depended on the fortunes of oil prices and river traffic. Residents of 1901 would have known Franklin as a town named for Benjamin Franklin, grounded in the industry that had transformed the valley within a single generation.
| Created / published | 1901 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Franklin, 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, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,464 × 6,256 px · prints to 35 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of the city of Franklin, Pa., 1901 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490546 |
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