New Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1902 – 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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This rare antique map captures New Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1902 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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New Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1902
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In 1902, New Kensington was a valley borough of frame and brick houses climbing from the Allegheny River, and the year came just after the United States Steel Corporation was formed in 1901, consolidating mills across the Pittsburgh district. Local men worked in the glassworks, brickyards, and rail yards along the water, so payday shaped the rhythm of trade on the main streets. Churches and schools were multiplying as families moved in from the surrounding hills and the rest of the valley. Residents would have known the town as a crowded working place where every new street brought another household and every shift whistle set the pace of the day.
| Created / published | 1902 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1902. 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 | 6,496 × 4,256 px · prints to 22 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | New Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1902 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490601 |
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