Downingtown, Pennsylvania, 1893 – 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: Downingtown, Pennsylvania, 1893, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Downingtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania 1893
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Downingtown, Pennsylvania, 1893
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Downingtown, a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, sat in 1893 on the Brandywine Creek about thirty miles west of Philadelphia. Its growth rested on the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line, which ran through the borough and carried farm produce, milled goods, and commuters along the corridor between Philadelphia and Lancaster. Mills and small manufactories lined the creek, while surrounding farms supplied markets in the county and beyond. Residents of the 1890s would have known the town as a quiet railroad and mill community tied to the rich farmland of the Chester County countryside.
| Created / published | 1893 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Downingtown, 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 | 8,352 × 5,824 px · prints to 28 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Downingtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania 1893 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490526 |
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