Brownsville, 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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A window into the past: Brownsville, Pennsylvania, 1902, 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: Brownsville, Pennsylvania 1902
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Brownsville, Pennsylvania, 1902
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Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1902 was a small river town on the Monongahela in Fayette County, its streets squeezed between the water and the hills rising behind them. The steel and tin mills of the Pittsburgh district lay a short distance upriver, and men from the valley towns took work there, sending their wages home to families on the side streets. Merchants along the main commercial blocks served farmers who drove in from the countryside to trade on market days. Residents knew their town as a county river community of churches, schools, and familiar storefronts, one whose fortunes now depended more on the wider valley economy than on its own landing.
| Created / published | 1902 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Brownsville, 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 | 8,384 × 4,280 px · prints to 28 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Brownsville, Pennsylvania 1902 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490505 |
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