Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1890 – 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 rare antique map captures Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1890 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Scranton, Penn. 1890
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1890
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1890 was a coal and railroad city built over the anthracite seams of the Lackawanna Valley. Its collieries, iron furnaces, and rolling mills drew workers from Wales, Ireland, England, and later from Eastern and Southern Europe, and the population had climbed steeply since the town was incorporated as a city in 1866. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad carried coal east to markets in New York and beyond, and its shops and tracks shaped the crowded streets that fill this view. Residents knew Scranton as the center of the region's coal trade, a place where mine, mill, and rail work set the rhythm of daily life.
| Created / published | 1890 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., downs, a. e. (albert e.), fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Scranton, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1890. 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 | 12,602 × 7,504 px · prints to 42 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Scranton, Penn. 1890 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490644 |
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