Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, 1903 – 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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Library of Congress record: Mechanicsburg, Pa., 1903
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Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, 1903
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In 1903, Mechanicsburg was a small borough in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, sitting in the fertile Cumberland Valley about a dozen miles southwest of the state capital at Harrisburg. Its livelihood rested on farming in the surrounding valley and on the railroad that tied it to Harrisburg and the wider region, which made it a convenient stop for shipping grain, produce, and goods. Residents of the day would have known the town as a quiet, orderly community of churches, schools, and family businesses, a place where most people knew one another's streets and houses. Mechanicsburg also carried the memory of June 1863, when Confederate troops passed through the valley during the Gettysburg campaign and unsettled the area for a few days. By 1903, that wartime disruption was long past, and the town was looking forward to steady growth in the new century.
| Created / published | 1903 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1903. 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 | 6,624 × 4,912 px · prints to 22 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Mechanicsburg, Pa., 1903 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490577 |
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