Sharon, Pennsylvania, 1901 – 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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A window into the past: Sharon, Pennsylvania, 1901, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania 1901
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Sharon, Pennsylvania, 1901
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In 1901, Sharon, Pennsylvania, sat on the Shenango River in Mercer County, a short distance north of the Ohio line, and its economy rested on iron and steel. Mills along the river turned out hoop steel and tin plate for canning and container makers, and that year the consolidation that created the Sharon Steel Company drew several local firms into one large operation. Railroad lines carried the finished metal to markets in the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes region, and the mill payrolls drew workers from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and across Europe. Residents of the time would have known the town first as a steel community, its furnace glow and smokestacks marking the city's working life along the river.
| Created / published | 1901 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Sharon, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1901. 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 | 10,048 × 5,840 px · prints to 33 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania 1901 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490646 |
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