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Scranton, PA, Drawn by T. M. Fowler and A. E. Downs, circa 1890.
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A bird's eye view of Scranton, Pennsylvania, during the 1890s. Scranton is the Lackawanna county seat and was the center of much of the activity in the anthracite trade during its heyday.

Credit: Library of Congress, Geography and Maps Division

The Lackawanna county seat, Scranton was a center of the anthracite  coal industry in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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