Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, 1900 – 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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This antique map of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, 1900 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Meyersdale, Pennsylvania
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Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, 1900
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Meyersdale, a borough in Somerset County in the Allegheny Mountains of southwestern Pennsylvania, was a railroad and coal town in 1900. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's main line ran through the community, and its tracks, depot, and freight yards shaped where houses, churches, and shops were built. Nearby mines and coke operations drew workers from the surrounding hills and from Europe, and the town's population grew with them. This 1900 view records the streets, homes, and business blocks as local residents knew them, showing a community organized around the rail line and the work it brought. Its churches, schools, and main commercial streets reflected the civic life of a mountain borough at the turn of the century.
| Created / published | 1900 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Meyersdale, 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, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,056 × 6,080 px · prints to 30 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Meyersdale, Pennsylvania |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490578 |
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