Cairo, West Virginia, 1899 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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: Cairo, West Virginia, 1899, 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: Cairo, West Virginia 1899
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Cairo, West Virginia, 1899
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Cairo, West Virginia, in Ritchie County, was a small community in 1899, when the state was still tied to timber, farming, and the extraction of oil and natural gas from the surrounding hills. The late 1890s brought drilling crews, supply wagons, and boarding houses to the region, and towns like Cairo felt the pull of that activity as landowners leased their acreage and wells were brought in. Most residents were farm families, lumbermen, and tradesmen who measured their year by the seasons and by news from the county seat at Harrisville. A bird's-eye view drawn that year shows the town as its own residents would have known it, with its streets, churches, and homes set along the valley floor before the larger industrial changes of the twentieth century reached the county.
| 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 Cairo, West Virginia, 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--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,264 × 5,696 px · prints to 24 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Cairo, West Virginia 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491489 |
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