Point Marion, Pennsylvania, 1902 – 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 Point Marion, Pennsylvania, 1902 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Point Marion, Pennsylvania 1902
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Point Marion, Pennsylvania, 1902
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Point Marion, a river borough in southwestern Fayette County, sat where Dunkard Creek enters the Monongahela just short of the West Virginia line. In 1902 its fortunes followed the river and the coal beneath the surrounding hills, as mining camps and river traffic drew steady work from the Monongahela Valley. Boatmen, miners and the merchants who supplied them made up much of daily life, and the town's churches, stores and schools clustered along the streets that climbed from the water. The street-by-street detail on this 1902 map shows a community still small enough that most residents could name every building and its owner, a town whose identity rested on the river, the creek mouth and the coal trade that passed through them.
| Created / published | 1902 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Point Marion, 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 | 6,648 × 4,744 px · prints to 22 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Point Marion, Pennsylvania 1902 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490632 |
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