Dunbar, 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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A window into the past: Dunbar, Pennsylvania, 1900, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Dunbar, Fayette County, Pennsylvania 1900
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Dunbar, Pennsylvania, 1900
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Dunbar, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, sat in the heart of the Connellsville coke region in 1900, where the Youghiogheny River valley was lined with beehive coke ovens feeding the steel mills of Pittsburgh. Coal from the surrounding hills was baked into coke there, and the work drew miners, laborers, and families from across Europe, so the town's streets reflected a mix of languages and churches. Railroad lines carried coke and coal out of the valley, tying the community's fortunes to the steel market far to the north. Residents of the day would have known Dunbar first as a coke town, a place defined by the glow of its ovens and the rhythm of its shifts.
| 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 Dunbar, 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 | 7,192 × 4,376 px · prints to 24 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Dunbar, Fayette County, Pennsylvania 1900 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490528 |
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