Indiana, Pennsylvania, 1900 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Indiana, Pennsylvania, 1900 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Indiana, Pennsylvania, 1900
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Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1900 was the seat of Indiana County, a coal and farming region in the western part of the state. The town's largest civic presence was the Indiana Normal School, founded in 1875 to train teachers, whose students and faculty gave the streets a steady academic rhythm alongside the courthouse business and local trade. Much of the surrounding county's wealth came from bituminous coal mined in the hills and shipped by rail, so the mines and the families who worked them shaped daily life well beyond the town limits. Residents of the day would have known Indiana as a county town of courts, classrooms and churches, with the courthouse at its center and the railroad connecting it to larger markets.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Indiana, 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 | 9,168 × 5,392 px · prints to 31 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Indiana, Pennsylvania, 1900 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490561 |
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