Bird's-eye view, 1906

Checked against the record. SOURCED at the Library of Congress record for the map itself. CONFIRMED: “Mount Union, Huntingdon Co., Pa. 1906”, published at Morrisville, Pennsylvania by Fowler & Kelly, c1906; drawn by T. M. Fowler, Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler, 1842-1922; a sheet 34 by 59 centimetres; number 811 in the Library's catalogue of panoramic maps of cities in the United States and Canada. The page had his initials right and can now give his name, his dates and his publisher. CORRECTED, gently. The page said the view was “drawn from the air before airplanes”, which is a good line and slightly misleading: it was not drawn from the air at all. The Library's own note reads “Perspective map not drawn to scale.” Fowler worked from the ground and constructed the viewpoint. The page now says that, which is the more impressive fact. THE GROWTH CLAIM REPLACED WITH SOURCED FIGURES. The page said the town “tripled in size” in the decade after the map. Welch, writing in 1909, gives 1,086 in 1900 and upward of 3,200 including suburbs by the time he wrote — which is close to a trebling but over the nine years BEFORE 1909, not the decade after 1906. The page now carries his figures and his dates instead of an unsourced span.