York, Pennsylvania, 1852 – 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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Step back in time with York, Pennsylvania, 1852, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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York, Pennsylvania, 1852
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York, Pennsylvania, in 1852 was a busy county seat in the rolling farmland south of the Susquehanna River. The town had earned a lasting place in national memory when the Second Continental Congress met there from late 1777 into 1778, after British troops occupied Philadelphia, and it was in York that Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. By the 1850s its economy rested on the surrounding farms, with grain mills, tanneries, and shops working along Codorus Creek and its streets. A railroad linked the town with the river at Wrightsville, so local flour and goods could reach markets downstream. The map's dense rows of houses, churches, and business blocks show a community that residents would have known as a market center and a place of Revolutionary-era history.
| Created / published | 1852 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of York, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1852. 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 |
| Original scan | 9,096 × 7,016 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490683 |
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