West Newton, Pennsylvania, 1900 – 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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This rare antique map captures West Newton, Pennsylvania, 1900 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: West Newton, Pennsylvania 1900
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West Newton, Pennsylvania, 1900
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West Newton, a borough in Westmoreland County on the Youghiogheny River, is shown here as it stood in 1900, roughly thirty miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Its fortunes followed the bituminous coal beneath the surrounding hills, which supplied furnaces, rail lines, and the factories of the Pittsburgh district. River barges and railroad connections tied local merchants and farmers to those markets, and the borough's streets held the stores, churches, and homes of families whose livelihoods depended on that trade. Schools, fire companies, and fraternal lodges gave residents their civic and social life. The town on this map was poised just before the industrial expansion of the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of West Newton, 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 | 7,728 × 5,256 px · prints to 26 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | West Newton, Pennsylvania 1900 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490675 |
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