Morrisville, Pennsylvania, 1893 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Morrisville, Pennsylvania, 1893. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1893
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Morrisville, Pennsylvania, 1893
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Morrisville sits on the Pennsylvania bank of the Delaware River, directly across from Trenton, New Jersey, and in 1893 its fortunes were tied to that river and to the larger city over the water. The Delaware and Raritan Canal and the Pennsylvania-Delaware Canal had long carried coal, grain, and lumber past its wharves, and barge traffic and nearby mills gave the borough much of its daily work. That summer the Panic of 1893 began, and manufacturers across the Trenton area cut wages and laid off workers, so residents would have felt the downturn quickly. Bucks County was otherwise a farming county, and many families here split their time between fields, river work, and the shops across the bridge.
| Created / published | 1893 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Morrisville, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1893. 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 | 10,096 × 6,816 px · prints to 34 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1893 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490590 |
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