Jeanette, Pennsylvania, 1897 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with Jeanette, Pennsylvania, 1897, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Jeanette, Pennsylvania, 1897
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Jeannette, in Westmoreland County about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh, was a young industrial town in 1897, and this map records it at a moment of rapid growth. Glassmaking and the coal and iron trades of the surrounding region drove its economy, and workers' houses, churches, and works crowded the streets laid out on the local hills. Rail lines carried coal, glass, and goods out to the wider Pittsburgh market, tying the town's fortunes to the steel and mining districts nearby. Residents of the 1890s would have known Jeannette as a working community of mills, shops, and neighborhoods, still shaping its civic institutions as the population climbed.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Jeanette, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1897. 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 |
| Original scan | 9,376 × 5,952 px · prints to 31 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490564 |
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