Providence, Pennsylvania, 1892 – 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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This rare antique map captures Providence, Pennsylvania, 1892 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Providence, Pennsylvania 1892
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Providence, Pennsylvania, 1892
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Providence, Pennsylvania, as drawn by A. E. Downs in 1892, sat in the anthracite country of northeastern Pennsylvania, where coal shaped nearly every household's income. Mines, breaker houses, and rail spurs carried coal toward markets in New York and Philadelphia, and the railroads that served the district brought steady work to the men who dug it. Many residents were immigrants or the children of immigrants, working in mines and mills and living in close-built streets around churches and company-era schools. In 1892, labor unrest was on many minds across Pennsylvania, since the Homestead steel strike near Pittsburgh that summer had turned the state's industrial fights into national news. A map like this one recorded the town's buildings at a moment when its fortunes still depended heavily on the mines.
| Created / published | 1892 |
|---|---|
| Creator | downs, a. e. (albert e.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Providence, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1892. 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 | 10,688 × 6,832 px · prints to 36 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Providence, Pennsylvania 1892 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490635 |
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