Charleroi, Pennsylvania, 1897 – Antique Map Print
(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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A window into the past: Charleroi, Pennsylvania, 1897, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Charleroi, Washington County, Pennsylvania 1897
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Charleroi, Pennsylvania, 1897
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Charleroi, Pennsylvania, in 1897 was a young borough on the Monongahela River in Washington County, south of Pittsburgh. Its identity came largely from glass. The town was laid out in the 1890s around window glass works and took its name from Charleroi in Belgium, home of many skilled glassworkers who came to staff the plants. Coal from the surrounding hills and barge traffic on the Monongahela moved goods in and out of the valley, and factory whistles set the rhythm of daily life for families who had come to the valley for steady wages. Residents would have known Charleroi as a glass town and a river town, one of many small industrial communities strung along the Mon below the steel city.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1897. 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 | 8,240 × 5,496 px · prints to 27 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Charleroi, Washington County, Pennsylvania 1897 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490513 |
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