Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1870 – Antique Wall Map
(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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A window into the past: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1870, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Philadelphia and vicinity showing location of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1870
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Philadelphia in 1870 was a city of roughly 675,000 people, and its economy still rested on manufacturing. Textile mills and carpet works in Kensington and Germantown ran alongside shipyards on the Delaware and machine shops across the city, and the Pennsylvania Railroad made the city a major rail center. Fairmount Park, created in 1867 along the Schuylkill, was still new, and the Fairmount Water Works pumped river water to homes and businesses. Residents who lived through the Civil War were only a few years removed from it, and many saw the growing city as proof that its industry had outlasted the conflict.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1870. 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 | 5,103 × 6,882 px · prints to 17 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Philadelphia and vicinity showing location of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490617 |
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