Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1871 – 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: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1871, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Birmingham
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1871
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In 1871 Pittsburgh sat where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio, and much of its wealth came from that position. Iron rolling mills, foundries, glassworks and coal-fired factories crowded the riverbanks, and the smoke they produced earned the city its nickname, the Smoky City, a name many residents accepted as a sign of industry. The population had reached roughly 86,000 by the 1870 census, and downtown had been rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1845 destroyed much of its commercial district. Across the Allegheny, Allegheny City remained a separate municipality that would not be joined to Pittsburgh until 1907. Local readers would have recognized these streets as the center of the iron trade and of the river traffic that carried its products west.
| Created / published | 1871 |
|---|---|
| Creator | krebs, otto |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1871. 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 | 13,170 × 6,096 px · prints to 44 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Birmingham |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490627 |
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