McKees Rocks, 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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Step back in time with McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, 1901, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: McKee's Rocks, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1901
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McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, 1901
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McKees Rocks, a river borough on the Ohio northwest of Pittsburgh, stood at the center of the region's rail and steel economy in 1901. The Pressed Steel Car Company had built a large railcar works there, and its furnaces, shops, and rail sidings gave the town much of its work. Many of the men and women who worked those shops had arrived from Hungary, Italy, Poland, and other parts of Eastern and Southern Europe, so the streets carried several languages and the churches and fraternal halls served distinct communities. Residents of the period knew McKees Rocks as a place where the river, the rail lines, and the factory gates shaped daily life. The town's fortunes would soon be tested by the labor unrest that later reached the car works.
| 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 McKees Rocks, 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 | 8,320 × 6,392 px · prints to 28 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | McKee's Rocks, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1901 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490575 |
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