Pottsville, Pennsylvania, 1889 – 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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Step back in time with Pottsville, Pennsylvania, 1889, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Pottsville, Pennsylvania 1889
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Pottsville, Pennsylvania, 1889
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Pottsville, the seat of Schuylkill County in east-central Pennsylvania, sat at the heart of the anthracite coal region in 1889. Its fortunes followed the collieries that ringed the valley and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, whose cars carried hard coal toward Philadelphia and New York along tracks running through town. Miners' families, many of them Welsh, Irish, and German immigrants or their children, lived in the streets climbing the hillsides above the business district. The county courthouse had drawn national attention in 1876, when the trials of alleged Molly Maguires were held there. By the late 1880s, breweries and shops served the men who worked underground, and most Pennsylvanians knew the town chiefly as a coal town.
| Created / published | 1889 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., downs, a. e. (albert e.), fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1889. 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 | 10,640 × 6,160 px · prints to 35 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pottsville, Pennsylvania 1889 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490634 |
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