Beaver, Pennsylvania, 1900 – 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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A window into the past: Beaver, Pennsylvania, 1900, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Beaver, Pennsylvania 1900
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Beaver, Pennsylvania, 1900
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Beaver, the seat of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, sits where the Beaver River meets the Ohio roughly thirty miles northwest of Pittsburgh. In 1900 the town's economy rested on the river and the industrial valley around it, with steamboats and barges carrying coal and manufactured goods along the Ohio while mills and factories lined the banks of the rivers nearby. The county courthouse and its offices gave the town its legal and political life, and churches, schools and shops made up its daily round. Residents would have known Beaver as a compact river town living in the shadow of Pittsburgh, whose steel and glass works were spreading through the valley. The map captures the community just before the region's industrial boom reshaped the towns around it.
| Created / published | 1900 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Beaver, 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 | 8,032 × 5,472 px · prints to 27 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Beaver, Pennsylvania 1900 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490496 |
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