Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, 1897 – 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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This rare antique map captures Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, 1897 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Turtle Creek, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1897
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Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, 1897
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Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, in 1897 was a small borough in the Monongahela River valley, a few miles east of Pittsburgh, where the creek runs down toward the river. Its economy rested on the heavy industry that filled the surrounding valleys, including iron and steel works, coal mining, and the railroads that carried their output. Westinghouse's manufacturing growth in the Pittsburgh district drew workers and families to the area in the 1890s, and the town's streets and houses were shaped by that steady demand for labor. Residents would have known Turtle Creek as a working community tied to the mills and rail yards that smoke and noise made hard to miss. The drawing shows the town as it stood at the end of the nineteenth century, just before the region's industrial boom reached its height.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1897. 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 | 7,152 × 5,008 px · prints to 24 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Turtle Creek, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1897 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490666 |
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