Mount Union, Pennsylvania, 1906 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Mount Union, Pennsylvania, 1906. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Mount Union, Huntingdon Co., Pa. 1906
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Mount Union, Pennsylvania, 1906
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Mount Union, in Huntingdon County, sat in the Juniata River valley in 1906, and the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line through the valley shaped its daily life. Trains carried coal, timber, iron, and freight east and west along the tracks, and many townspeople earned their wages from the railroad or from businesses that served it. Central Pennsylvania's iron furnaces, sawmills, and tanneries drew on the surrounding ridges and forests, so the valley's economy rose and fell with those industries and with the rail traffic they generated. Local residents in 1906 would have known Mount Union as a stop on the river and railroad corridor, a place where the town's streets, churches, and depot were arranged around the tracks and the water.
| Created / published | 1906 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler & kelly, fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Mount Union, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1906. 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 | 7,584 × 6,128 px · prints to 25 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Mount Union, Huntingdon Co., Pa. 1906 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490595 |
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