Tarentum, Pennsylvania, 1901 – 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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This rare antique map captures Tarentum, Pennsylvania, 1901 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1901
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Tarentum, Pennsylvania, 1901
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Tarentum, a borough on the Allegheny River about 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, was a working river town in 1901, when this view was drawn. Its fortunes were tied to the Allegheny Valley, where rail lines and river barges carried coal, iron, and manufactured goods out of the region's mills and factories. That same year, the formation of the United States Steel Corporation in Pittsburgh signaled how deeply the surrounding valley towns depended on the steel economy and the jobs it supplied. Residents of Tarentum would have known their town as a place of mills, church spires, and close-set streets running down toward the water. The borough's growth in these years brought new families, shops, and schools to its hillside neighborhoods.
| Created / published | 1901 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Tarentum, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1901. 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 | 9,408 × 5,264 px · prints to 31 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1901 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490656 |
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