Edinboro, Pennsylvania, 1898 – Antique Map Print
(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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Step back in time with Edinboro, Pennsylvania, 1898, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Edinboro, Pa. 1898
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Edinboro, Pennsylvania, 1898
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Edinboro, a small borough in Erie County in northwestern Pennsylvania, in 1898 was a town shaped largely by its school. The State Normal School there trained teachers for the region's country classrooms, and its students, faculty and boarding houses set much of the rhythm of daily life on the streets. Surrounding farms supplied dairy products, grain and produce to markets in Erie, about twenty miles north, and the nearby lake gave the community a recreational setting. Like many Pennsylvania towns of the period, Edinboro was building churches, lodges and public buildings, and residents would have recognized the drawing as a record of a quiet place where education and farming went hand in hand.
| Created / published | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Creator | o'brien, john j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Edinboro, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1898. 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 | 6,888 × 3,464 px · prints to 23 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Edinboro, Pa. 1898 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490532 |
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