Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1884 – 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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This antique map of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1884 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Lewisburgh
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1884
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Lewisburg, the county seat of Union County, sat on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River in 1884 as a town of a few thousand people. Its livelihood rested on the surrounding farms, on local trade along the river, and on the commerce that moved through the valley. The University at Lewisburg, a Baptist-affiliated college founded in 1846, gave the town much of its character, and it would be renamed Bucknell in 1886. Churches, brick storefronts and the courthouse filled the streets that the view records building by building, with the river and its bridges framing the settlement. Residents of the day would have known Lewisburg as both a college town and a market center on the river.
| Created / published | 1884 |
|---|---|
| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1884. 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 | 7,680 × 5,888 px · prints to 26 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Lewisburgh |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490569 |
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