Sheffield, Pennsylvania, 1895 – 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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Sheffield, Pennsylvania, 1895 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Sheffield, Warren County, Pennsylvania, 1895
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Sheffield, Pennsylvania, 1895
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Sheffield, in Warren County in the hill country of northwestern Pennsylvania, was a small lumber town in 1895, when this bird's-eye view was drawn. By the 1890s much of the surrounding forest had been cut, and sawmills, tanning works that used hemlock bark, and the rail lines that hauled out timber and finished goods shaped local work and wages. Residents of the borough would have known it as a place of mill whistles, plank sidewalks, and streets lined with frame houses and churches, with life centered on the workplace and the railroad depot. Many families depended on a single employer, so a slowdown at the mill could ripple through every street. The view records that world at a moment when the region's timber boom was nearing its end.
| Created / published | 1895 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Sheffield, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1895. 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 | 7,976 × 5,192 px · prints to 27 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Sheffield, Warren County, Pennsylvania, 1895 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490648 |
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