Mingo Junction, Ohio, 1899 – 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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Mingo Junction, Ohio, 1899 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Mingo Junction, Ohio 1899
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Mingo Junction, Ohio, 1899
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Mingo Junction, a river town in Jefferson County, Ohio, sat on the Ohio River a few miles south of Steubenville in 1899. Its fortunes followed the rail lines and the iron and steel works that clustered along the riverfront, where the Pennsylvania Railroad and other lines met and freight moved between the Ohio Valley and the Pittsburgh district. Mill work drew many laborers from Central and Southern Europe, so the streets held a mix of languages, churches, and fraternal lodges alongside the native-born families who had settled the valley earlier. Residents of the day knew the town first for its furnaces and its trains, and the rhythm of shift whistles and river traffic shaped daily life there.
| Created / published | 1899 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Mingo Junction, Ohio, drawn in 1899. 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--Ohio |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,360 × 4,600 px · prints to 25 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Mingo Junction, Ohio 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490281 |
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