Orbisonia, Pennsylvania, 1906 – 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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Orbisonia, Pennsylvania, 1906 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: Birds eye view of Orbisonia and Rock Hill, Pennsylvania 1906
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Orbisonia, Pennsylvania, 1906
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Orbisonia sits in the Cove Valley of Huntingdon County, south-central Pennsylvania, in 1906, a small mountain community whose economy grew out of iron. Charcoal-fired iron furnaces in the surrounding hollows had long employed local men, hauling ore, cutting wood, and tending the stacks, though by the early twentieth century the old charcoal works were losing ground to furnaces fueled by coal and coke. Like many rural boroughs of its size, Orbisonia depended on farming, local stores, churches, and the rail and road links that carried its produce and iron to larger markets in the Juniata and Cumberland valleys. For residents in 1906, the town was a place of close-knit family life, where the furnaces, the church steeples, and the main street defined daily routine and local identity.
| Created / published | 1906 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler & kelly |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Orbisonia, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1906. 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 | 6,560 × 4,960 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Orbisonia and Rock Hill, Pennsylvania 1906 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490609 |
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