Kittanning, Pennsylvania, 1896 – 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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A window into the past: Kittanning, Pennsylvania, 1896, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 1896
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Kittanning, Pennsylvania, 1896
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Kittanning, the county seat of Armstrong County in western Pennsylvania, sat on the Allegheny River about 40 miles northeast of Pittsburgh when this 1896 bird's-eye view was drawn. The town's economy rested on the river trade, the surrounding coal country, and the brick, glass, and other small works that served the Allegheny Valley. Rail lines running along the river tied Kittanning more closely to Pittsburgh's markets, and the courthouse and county offices kept the town at the center of local politics and legal business. Residents of the 1890s would also have known the site for its older history, since Colonel John Armstrong's 1756 raid on the Delaware town of Kittanning, during the French and Indian War, gave the county its name.
| 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 Kittanning, 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 | 8,448 × 5,408 px · prints to 28 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 1896 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490567 |
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