Tullytown, Pennsylvania, 1887 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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: Tullytown, Pennsylvania, 1887, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Tullytown, Pennsylvania 1887
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Tullytown, Pennsylvania, 1887
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Tullytown, Pennsylvania, in 1887 was a small river town in lower Bucks County, set along the Delaware River and the Delaware Canal, which carried coal and freight between the Lehigh region and Philadelphia. Its residents depended on the water and the towpath for work, with barge crews, canal laborers, and the local merchants who served them. The 1880s were a period of steady change in the valley, as railroads competed with the canal and river trade that had shaped towns like this one for half a century. Across the river, Trenton was the larger city that many Tullytown families looked to for markets and jobs. The map records the town as its builders and neighbors knew it at that moment, just before the canal's decline became fully apparent.
| Created / published | 1887 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Tullytown, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1887. 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 | 6,040 × 4,416 px · prints to 20 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Tullytown, Pennsylvania 1887 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490665 |
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