1901 Atlas of the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

This is a facsimile reprint of the Atlas of the City of Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Penna., made from plans, deeds, and surveys and copyrighted in 1901 by the Harrisburg Title Co. The plates are reproduced in full color from the State Library of Pennsylvania copy, preserving the original hand-colored building footprints, lot tints, and ward boundaries. That copy lacks the atlas's title page and index map, so this edition begins directly with Plate A; all twenty-one map plates are present and complete.

Made by a title company for the settling of deeds, this is the most detailed map of Pennsylvania's capital city published in its day. Twenty-one large plates, each spanning two pages, cover the city ward by ward at 100 or 200 feet to the inch. Every lot is drawn with its street number, frontage and depth, and the name of its owner or estate, and every building is shown in plan and colored by construction. Churches, schools, markets, and public buildings are named, subdivision plans are keyed to the county plan books, and the ward lines are traced across the blocks. The plates run from the Susquehanna riverfront and Front Street through the blocks along State, Walnut, and Market Streets to the hill above City Reservoir Park, and down the river to the Paxton Iron and Steel Company, the Lochiel Rolling Mill, the Harrisburg Rolling Mill, and the Pennsylvania Steel Company works, with the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, and the old Pennsylvania Canal threading through them all.

Harrisburg in 1901 stood on the eve of the new State Capitol and the City Beautiful improvements that remade its riverfront, and this atlas records the city exactly as it was before that transformation. For anyone researching a Harrisburg house, business, church, or block, it shows who owned the ground, what stood on it, and what the neighborhood looked like more than a century ago. It is an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Harrisburg and Dauphin County, Pennsylvania history.

44 pages. 8.5" x 11". Full color. Paperback.

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