Carbondale, Pennsylvania, 1890 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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 Carbondale, Pennsylvania, 1890 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Carbondale, Pennsylvania, 1890
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Carbondale, Pennsylvania, in 1890 was a coal town in the Lackawanna Valley of northeastern Pennsylvania, where anthracite mining and the railroads that hauled it set the rhythm of daily life. The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was the dominant employer, and its shops and rail yards shaped the town's streets and its economy. Many of the men working the nearby collieries were immigrants from Ireland, Wales, England, and Eastern and Southern Europe, and their churches, fraternal halls, and boarding houses filled the blocks shown here. Residents of the time would have known Carbondale first as a place where the rail lines met the coal, and this street-by-street view records how closely the town's houses, factories, and tracks were packed around that trade.
| Created / published | 1890 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., downs, a. e. (albert e.), fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Carbondale, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1890. 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 | 10,800 × 6,704 px · prints to 36 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Carbondale, Pennsylvania, 1890 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490510 |
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