Pitcairn, 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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Step back in time with Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, 1901, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Pitcairn, Pa., Allegheny County 1901
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Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, 1901
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Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, in 1901 was a young railroad borough in Allegheny County, east of Pittsburgh, that had grown up around the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line. The railroad's yards and repair shops gave the town its reason for being, and many residents worked on the tracks, in the shops, or in the coal and steel plants that fed the Pittsburgh district. The borough took its name from Robert Pitcairn, a railroad official, and its streets of workers' houses, churches, and small commercial blocks were laid out close to the rail lines that ran through the valley. In 1901 the town was still defining its civic life, with its schools, fire company, and churches serving a population drawn largely from nearby mining and mill districts. The map shows a community whose rhythms followed the whistle, the train schedule, and the shift change.
| 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 Pitcairn, 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 | 6,488 × 4,200 px · prints to 22 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pitcairn, Pa., Allegheny County 1901 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490626 |
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