Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1901 – Antique Wall Map
(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 antique map of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1901 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Greensburg, Pennsylvania 1901
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Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1901
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Greensburg, the seat of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, sat about thirty miles east of Pittsburgh in 1901, and its streets showed a town shaped by the coal and coke mining that ran through the surrounding hills. Rail lines carried coal, coke, and farm goods out of the county, and the courthouse square drew lawyers, merchants, and farmers who came in on market days and court days. Pittsburgh's mills and furnaces made the whole region's economy depend on heavy industry, and Greensburg's shops and churches served a population of miners, railroad men, and the families who ran the county's businesses. Residents of the day would have known the town first as the place where county government met and where the regional rail and trade routes converged.
| 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 Greensburg, 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 | 9,920 × 5,712 px · prints to 33 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Greensburg, Pennsylvania 1901 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490552 |
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