Oil City, Pennsylvania, 1896 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Oil City, Pennsylvania, 1896. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Oil City, Pennsylvania 1896
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Oil City, Pennsylvania, 1896
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Oil City, Pennsylvania, in 1896 was a river town built on the oil industry that had grown up in the hills around it after Edwin Drake's 1859 well at nearby Titusville. Where Oil Creek meets the Allegheny River, the town handled crude oil moved by pipeline, wagon, and rail, and refineries and storage tanks lined the waterfront and the valley floor. Its streets and business blocks were tightly packed between steep slopes, and the people who lived there knew the town as a center of the oil trade, with its exchanges, shipping offices, and newspaper watching every swing in prices. The bird's-eye view of that crowded valley captures a place whose fortunes still rose and fell with the wells upstream.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,368 × 6,608 px · prints to 35 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Oil City, Pennsylvania 1896 |
| Reference | PA-OilCity-1896 |
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