Oil City, Pennsylvania, 1896 – 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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A window into the past: Oil City, Pennsylvania, 1896, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Oil City, Pennsylvania 1896
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Oil City, Pennsylvania, 1896
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Oil City sits where Oil Creek meets the Allegheny River in northwestern Pennsylvania, and this bird's-eye view shows the town as it looked in 1896, a few decades after oil was first struck nearby at Titusville in 1859. T. M. Fowler and James B. Moyer produced many such perspective maps of American towns in the late nineteenth century, drawing streets, rail lines and major buildings from an imagined elevated vantage point. Because the town's fortunes rose and fell with the oil trade, its streets, refineries and river landings reveal how closely the settlement depended on petroleum.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 5,184 × 3,304 px · prints to 17 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Oil City, Pennsylvania 1896 |
| Reference | PA-OilCity-1896 |
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