Mountville, Pennsylvania, 1894 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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: Mountville, Pennsylvania, 1894, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Mountville, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania 1894
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Mountville, Pennsylvania, 1894
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Mountville, a village in southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, sat in 1894 within one of the most productive farming districts in the state. Its residents lived by the seasons of wheat, corn, tobacco, and dairy, and many families of German descent kept the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect and their Lutheran and Reformed church calendars. The county seat of Lancaster, a short distance away, was known for cigar making, iron works, and silk mills that drew workers from surrounding villages, while railroads carried farm produce and manufactured goods to Philadelphia and Baltimore. The map preserves the village as its own residents knew it, with its streets, churches, and small commercial buildings, in a community still defined by the land around it.
| Created / published | 1894 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Mountville, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1894. 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 | 5,064 × 3,928 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Mountville, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania 1894 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490596 |
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