Towanda, Pennsylvania, 1880 – 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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Towanda, Pennsylvania, 1880 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Towanda, Pa. 1880
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Towanda, Pennsylvania, 1880
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Towanda, the county seat of Bradford County in north-central Pennsylvania, sat on the Susquehanna River in 1880, where the river valley had long carried timber rafts and boats south toward markets. The town's economy rested mostly on lumber, sawmills, and tanneries that processed hemlock bark from the surrounding forests, and rail lines running up the Susquehanna valley tied these businesses to larger eastern cities. As the seat of county government, Towanda drew lawyers, merchants, and farmers to its courthouse and public square, and its civic life revolved around courts, churches, and local newspapers. A map drawn that year would have shown a town still shaped by river trade and forest industry, with its streets and buildings laid out for those who lived and worked there.
| Created / published | 1880 |
|---|---|
| Creator | philadelphia publishing house |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Towanda, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1880. 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 | 8,872 × 5,168 px · prints to 30 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Towanda, Pa. 1880 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490664 |
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