Strasburg, Pennsylvania, 1903 – 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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Strasburg, Pennsylvania, 1903 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Strasburg, Lancaster Co., Pa. 1903
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Strasburg, Pennsylvania, 1903
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Strasburg, a small borough in Lancaster County, sat in some of the most productive farmland in Pennsylvania in 1903. Tobacco, grain, and dairy were the mainstays of the surrounding countryside, and the town served as a market and shipping point for farm families who drove their wagons in from the valleys around it. The Strasburg Rail Road, a short line chartered in the 1830s, still carried freight and some passengers, tying the town to larger rail networks and to the cities beyond Lancaster County. Many residents at the time would have known Strasburg as a quiet trading center where Mennonite and Amish neighbors, English-speaking townsfolk, and railroad crews crossed paths on the same streets.
| Created / published | 1903 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1903. 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 | 6,048 × 4,376 px · prints to 20 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Strasburg, Lancaster Co., Pa. 1903 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490655 |
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