Winber, Pennsylvania, 1900 – 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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Step back in time with Winber, Pennsylvania, 1900, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Winber, Pennsylvania, 1900
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Winber, a mining community in western Pennsylvania's bituminous coal country, stood in 1900 at the center of an economy built on digging coal out of the hills around it. Mines drew a steady stream of laborers, many of them immigrants from Central and Southern Europe, who lived in company-era housing and rows of modest frame homes clustered near the pits, the tipple, and the rail spurs that carried coal to market. Life in such towns revolved around shift whistles, church parishes, fraternal lodges, and the store and saloon at the crossroads. Residents at the turn of the century knew Winber first as a coal town, and its fortunes rose and fell with the price of coal and the health of the mines.
| Created / published | 1900 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Winber, 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 |
| Original scan | 9,040 × 5,576 px · prints to 30 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490680 |
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