Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1902 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1902 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1902
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1902
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In 1902 Pittsburgh counted more than 320,000 residents, and its mills, furnaces and railroad yards ran day and night along the three rivers. The year before, Andrew Carnegie's steel company had been merged into the new United States Steel Corporation, so the region's largest employer now answered to directors in New York. Trains of the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio railroads hauled coke, iron and finished steel out of the valleys. Meanwhile the Carnegie Library and Carnegie Institute in Oakland, opened in 1895, offered reading rooms, a music hall and art galleries to a growing middle class. Most residents knew the city by its furnaces and by the wages they carried home on payday.
| Created / published | 1902 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1902. 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 | 7,256 × 4,856 px · prints to 24 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1902 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490629 |
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