Erie, Pennsylvania, 1909 – 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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Erie, Pennsylvania, 1909 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Birdseye view of Erie, Penna. 1909
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Erie, Pennsylvania, 1909
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In 1909 Erie, Pennsylvania, was a lake city of more than 60,000 people, and its factories were reaching beyond the older iron trade. The Hammermill Paper Company, founded in Erie in 1898, had become one of the town's notable employers, and streetcar lines carried workers from the mills to the growing neighborhoods on the rising ground above the bay. Lake steamers still called at the harbor with coal and freight, and the docks sat near the waters where Oliver Hazard Perry's fleet had been built in 1813 before the Battle of Lake Erie. Residents of the day knew the city as a place of shipyards, rail connections and industrial wages, with its naval past never far from the shoreline.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | lederle, chas |
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 12,511 × 9,184 px · prints to 42 × 31 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birdseye view of Erie, Penna. 1909 |
| Reference | PA-Erie-1909 |
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