Apollo, Pennsylvania, 1896 – Antique Map Print
(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 Apollo, Pennsylvania, 1896. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Apollo, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 1896
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Apollo, Pennsylvania, 1896
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Apollo, a river borough in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, sits on the Kiskiminetas River east of Pittsburgh, and by 1896 its fortunes rested largely on iron and steel. The Apollo Iron and Steel Company, established in the late 1870s, anchored the local economy, drawing workers from nearby farms and from immigrant families settling in the Pittsburgh region. Rail lines along the river carried finished iron and steel to markets farther west, tying the borough's payroll to the wider industrial cycle. Residents would have known Apollo as a mill town where the works set the daily rhythm, with churches, schools and fraternal halls spread across the streets rising from the riverbank.
| Created / published | 1896 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Apollo, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1896. 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 | 7,632 × 5,936 px · prints to 25 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Apollo, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 1896 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490493 |
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