Yeagertown, Pennsylvania, 1906 – 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.)
Description
Step back in time with Yeagertown, Pennsylvania, 1906, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Burnham and Yeagertown, Mifflin Co., Pa. 1906
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Yeagertown, Pennsylvania, 1906
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Yeagertown, a small Pennsylvania community in the Juniata Valley, appears in this 1906 bird's-eye view at a time when the region's economy rested on rail, timber, and iron. The Pennsylvania Railroad's main line ran through the valley, carrying freight and passengers past towns like this one and tying local farms and mills to larger markets in Harrisburg and Philadelphia. Residents of the period would have known the town through its churches, schools, and the shops along its main streets, along with the seasonal rhythms of farm work and the nearby river. The drawing captures each building as it stood in the first decade of the twentieth century, before the automobile and later industrial change reshaped rural central Pennsylvania.
| Created / published | 1906 |
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| Creator | fowler & kelly, fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Yeagertown, 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 | 6,472 × 5,376 px · prints to 22 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Burnham and Yeagertown, Mifflin Co., Pa. 1906 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490682 |
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