Cumberland, Maryland, 1906 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 Cumberland, Maryland, 1906 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: Bird's eye view of Cumberland, Maryland 1906
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Cumberland, Maryland, 1906
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Cumberland, Maryland, in 1906 was a railroad and coal town in a narrow valley where Wills Creek meets the North Branch of the Potomac. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's shops and yards along the valley floor employed many of its working men, and coal from the Georges Creek basin to the south still moved out by rail and along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which had reached the town in 1850. The city took its name from the Duke of Cumberland and grew up around the British fort of 1755, later serving as the western end of the National Road for decades. Residents knew it as a gateway between the East and the Ohio country, a place of rail men, miners' families and merchants who lived on the hillsides above the tracks.
| Created / published | 1906 |
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| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer), fowler & kelly |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Cumberland, Maryland, drawn in 1906. 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--Maryland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,560 × 4,480 px · prints to 22 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Cumberland, Maryland 1906 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489107 |
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