Newtown, Pennsylvania, 1893 – 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 Newtown, Pennsylvania, 1893 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
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Newtown, Pennsylvania, 1893
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Newtown, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was a small borough in 1893, set among farms and orchards about twenty miles north of Philadelphia. Its economy rested mostly on agriculture, with dairy, grain, and fruit sold to markets in Philadelphia and the towns along the rail lines, and local tradesmen and shopkeepers served the surrounding countryside. Bucks County's long history reached back to the colonial period, and the old village streets and church and civic buildings reflected that age. The year 1893 also brought the nationwide Panic of 1893, a financial collapse that hit merchants and farmers across Pennsylvania hard, and townspeople would have felt its effects in prices and credit.
| Created / published | 1893 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Newtown, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1893. 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 | 10,032 × 7,040 px · prints to 33 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490604 |
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