Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, 1902 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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: Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, 1902, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, 1902
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Belle Vernon, a river town in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, sits on the Monongahela about forty miles south of Pittsburgh, and this 1902 bird's-eye view records it at the start of the twentieth century. The surrounding valley was then built on coal, with mines and coke works in the hills and barges carrying fuel down the river toward the steel mills of Pittsburgh. Towns like Belle Vernon depended on that cycle of mining, shipping, and wages, so a steady payroll and a working river shaped daily life more than any single landmark. Residents in 1902 would have known the town as a place of churches, schools, and storefronts clustered along the riverbank, where the rhythms of the mines and the boats set the pace of the week.
| Created / published | 1902 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1902. 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 | 7,776 × 4,208 px · prints to 26 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, 1902 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490497 |
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