Elkins, West Virginia, 1897 – 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 rare antique map captures Elkins, West Virginia, 1897 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Elkins, Randolph County, W.Va. 1897
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Elkins, West Virginia, 1897
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Elkins, the seat of Randolph County in the mountains of eastern West Virginia, was a young railroad and lumber town in 1897, having grown up largely since the 1880s around the line that carried timber and coal out of the surrounding hills. The town took its name from Stephen B. Elkins, the state businessman and politician who was then serving in the United States Senate and whose railroad interests helped shape its growth. Sawmills and railroad work supplied most of the jobs, and the forests of the region were being cut hard and fast. The population was still small beside the older industrial cities to the north. A view of its streets from that year shows a town still filling in its blocks, churches, and commercial lots, and it would have been the fullest record residents had of the place they worked and lived in.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Elkins, West Virginia, drawn in 1897. 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 | 7,800 × 5,592 px · prints to 26 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Elkins, Randolph County, W.Va. 1897 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491493 |
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