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Summary

Penn State Digital Library Collections

Artist Full Name - Thaddeus M. Fowler

Artist Country -American

Artist Life Dates - 1842-1922

Artist Life Century - Nineteenth/Twentieth

Object Title - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1902

Object Year - 1902

Object Medium - Color lithograph

Object Size Inches - 18 x 26

Inscriptions - See print for Street names, River Names, and Nos. 1-16 Building I.D.s

Printer Publisher - T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer

Caption - This view was drawn by Thaddeus M. Fowler (1842-1922), who published it with James B. Moyer. To anyone interested in bird's-views of Pennsylvania towns during the late nineteenth century, the name of Fowler appears on a seemingly endless number of these panoramic map views. He was a prolific producer of these views from Altoona, 1872, through Allentown, 1922. From the various lists of his published works in libraries, historical societies, museums, and the Library of Congress, the total number of Pennsylvania views is 174. This count will probably increase in years to come as more unrecorded views are found. In addition to his work in Pennsylvania, he visited at least eighteen states and Canada, where he drew and published many more views. Fowler was born in 1842 in Lowell, Massachusetts. He ran away from home at age fifteen. Four years later he enlisted in the Union Army, was wounded at the Battle of Bull Run, and was honorably discharged in 1863. He moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1864 and worked with his uncle, who was a professional photographer. In 1870 he started his own panoramic map publishing firm. He moved from Madison to New Jersey around 1880 and was located briefly in Lewisburg, Sunburry, and Trenton between 1881 and 1885. He settled his family in 1885 in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, which remained his home and headquarters until he died in 1922. His active career spanned a period of fifty years. During this time, he associated with several other artists and publishers. There are views by Fowler and Kelly, Fowler and Downs, Hughes and Fowler, Fowler and Browning, Fowler and Bailey, and Fowler and Moyer. His association with James B. Moyer of Myerstown, Pennsylvania, was by far the most productive one. This partnership lasted from 1889 to 1902, and almost all of the fine Pennsylvania bird's-eye views were published in this era. Fowler's views are noted for their accurate drawings and fine detail. In his eightieth year, while drawing Port Jervis, New York, he fell on an icy pavement and died shortly thereafter.

Subject Town view

Penn State Collection, Palmer Musem of Art, O'Connor-Yeager Collection

http://www.psu.edu/dept/palmermuseum/

Credit line - Palmer Museum of Art, partial gift and purchase from John C. O'Connor and Ralph M. Yeager

Accession Number - 86.549

Sorting Number - 1986.549

Permitted Uses - This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. Credit line: Palmer Museum of Art, partial gift and purchase from John C. O'Connor and Ralph M. Yeager For more details see:

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Record ID - OY169

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