Corry, Pennsylvania, 1870 – 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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A window into the past: Corry, Pennsylvania, 1870, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Corry, Erie County, Pennsylvania 1870
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Corry, Pennsylvania, 1870
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Corry, in Erie County in northwestern Pennsylvania, was a young town in 1870, having risen within roughly a decade of the oil boom that began in the nearby Titusville and Oil Creek valleys in 1859. Crude oil from the surrounding wells moved out by rail, and the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad established shops there, so railroad work and the oil trade were the town's main sources of employment. Streets laid out quickly were still filling with frame houses, churches, hotels and storefronts as men arrived seeking work. Residents knew Corry as an oil-country town where fortunes changed hands within a season, and its wooden buildings show how fast it had grown from farmland.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner, chicago lithographing co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Corry, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1870. 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 | 8,384 × 7,088 px · prints to 28 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Corry, Erie County, Pennsylvania 1870 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490521 |
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