Ligonier, Pennsylvania, 1900 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Ligonier, Pennsylvania, 1900. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Ligonier, Pennsylvania 1900
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Ligonier, Pennsylvania, 1900
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In 1900 Ligonier, a borough in the Laurel Highlands of Westmoreland County, was a small market town built around its central square, the Diamond. Its name reached back to 1758, when British troops under Colonel John Stanwix built Fort Ligonier during the French and Indian War, and residents took pride in that frontier past. The surrounding valley depended on farming, timber, and the small trade that moved through town, and a rail link to the larger town of Latrobe tied Ligonier to the wider industrial economy of western Pennsylvania. Townspeople in 1900 would have known the place as a quiet county seat's neighbor, a community of churches, stores, and fraternal halls set against the forested ridges.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ligonier, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1900. 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 | 6,856 × 4,472 px · prints to 23 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Ligonier, Pennsylvania 1900 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490570 |
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