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Birds Eye View of Philadelphia and Vicinity, Philadelphia & Reading Railroad – Vintage Map Wall Art

Birds Eye View of Philadelphia and Vicinity, Philadelphia & Reading Railroad — antique map
Birds Eye View of Philadelphia and Vicinity, Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. Antique map from the PAN MAPS collection.

(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 Birds Eye View of Philadelphia and Vicinity, Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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This view takes in Philadelphia and its surrounding countryside from an elevated, angled perspective, a format that railroads used to advertise the places their lines reached. The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, which ran heavily used lines through the region and into the anthracite coal country, commissioned such pictorial maps to promote travel and freight service. Looking at it today, the grid of streets between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers and the routes of the rail lines reveal how central rail transportation was to the city's growth in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Original scan4,974 × 3,640 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferencePA-Philadelphia-1870

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