Corry, Pennsylvania, 1895 – 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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Corry, Pennsylvania, 1895 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Corry, Pennsylvania 1895
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Corry, Pennsylvania, 1895
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Corry, in Erie County, Pennsylvania, was a railroad and oil town by 1895, about a generation past the boom years that had brought the first wells to nearby Oil Creek. The Erie Railroad's shops and yards gave many residents steady wages, and the trains that carried crude and refined oil out of the region kept the town tied to larger markets in the East and Midwest. By the mid-1890s, the rush of the early oil years had settled into a more ordinary rhythm, with churches, schools, and lodges taking up civic life as the town matured. The map records a place that was past its raw beginnings and had settled into the work of railroading and industry.
| Created / published | 1895 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Corry, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1895. 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 | 9,584 × 6,128 px · prints to 32 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Corry, Pennsylvania 1895 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490522 |
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