Wilson Mendelssohn, Pennsylvania, 1902 – 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.)
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This antique map of Wilson Mendelssohn, Pennsylvania, 1902 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Wilson and Mendelssohn, Pennsylvania 1902
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Wilson Mendelssohn, Pennsylvania, 1902
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**Wilson Mendelssohn, Pennsylvania, 1902**, shows a town drawn in a year when much of the state ran on rail, mill, and mine. Pennsylvania was among the nation's leading manufacturing states, with iron and steel works, rolling mills, textile and silk plants, and railroad shops providing work in its river valleys and hill towns. That summer the anthracite coal strike, led by the United Mine Workers, idled many thousands of miners in the northeastern coal fields and tightened coal supplies in cities well beyond them. The dispute was settled in October through an arbitration commission named by President Theodore Roosevelt. Residents of a town like this one would have measured the year by paydays, the mill whistle, and the price of coal in winter.
| Created / published | 1902 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Wilson Mendelssohn, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1902. 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 | 4,816 × 3,528 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Wilson and Mendelssohn, Pennsylvania 1902 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490679 |
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