Washington, Pennsylvania, 1897 – Antique Wall Map
(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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This rare antique map captures Washington, Pennsylvania, 1897 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Washington, Pennsylvania, 1897
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Washington, Pennsylvania, the seat of Washington County about 25 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, was a county town in 1897 whose fortunes were tied to the coal and industrial economy of the Monongahela valley. Surrounding mines and the steel and rail demand of the Pittsburgh district drew workers and money into the region through the 1890s. The town's identity rested as much on its courthouse square and its colleges as on commerce, and Washington & Jefferson College, formed by the 1865 merger of two older schools, anchored local civic and social life. Residents in 1897 would have known the town first as a seat of county government, a college town, and a market center for the farms and mining villages around it.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Washington, 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 |
| Original scan | 11,576 × 6,160 px · prints to 39 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490672 |
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