Manayunk, Pennsylvania, 1907 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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 Manayunk, Pennsylvania, 1907, an antique map rich in period 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: Birds eye view of Manayunk, Wissahickon=Roxborough from West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1907
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Manayunk, Pennsylvania, 1907
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Manayunk, Pennsylvania, in 1907 was a mill village on the Schuylkill River northwest of Philadelphia, which had annexed it in 1854. Its economy rested on textile mills, many of them silk and cotton works strung along the river and the Manayunk Canal, whose water power had driven the town's factories since the early 1800s. Workers lived in rows of brick houses climbing the hillside near the main street, and many families depended on a single mill for their wages. Rail lines and the river towpath carried goods and commuters between the village and the city. The map records this industrial town at a point when its mills still defined its streets and its daily life.
| Created / published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler & kelly, fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Manayunk, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1907. 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 | 9,152 × 5,792 px · prints to 31 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Manayunk, Wissahickon=Roxborough from West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1907 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490573 |
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