Barnesville, Ohio, 1899 – 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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Barnesville, Ohio, 1899 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Barnesville, Ohio 1899
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Barnesville, Ohio, 1899
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Barnesville, Ohio, in 1899 was a small town in Belmont County, in the hill country of the eastern part of the state. Its economy rested on farming and on the coal mining that ran through the surrounding county, and the Society of Friends was a large presence in the town's churches, schools, and civic life. Its streets, houses, and business blocks, laid out in this 1899 view, show a community of modest size that was still growing alongside the coal and rail traffic of the late nineteenth century. Residents of the day would have known the town as a quiet, orderly place where farm families, miners' households, and Quaker merchants shared the same main streets.
| Created / published | 1899 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Barnesville, Ohio, drawn in 1899. 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--Ohio |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,280 × 5,136 px · prints to 28 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Barnesville, Ohio 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490259 |
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