Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1874 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1874. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: View of Pittsburgh & Allegheny
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1874
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In 1874 Pittsburgh was still feeling the effects of the Panic of 1873, which had sent orders for iron rails and machinery tumbling and left many mill hands working short weeks or without pay. Employers and workers argued over wages in the mills along the Monongahela, and the city's newspapers printed the closings and reduced shifts day by day. Across the river and up the hillside, the Monongahela Incline, which had opened in 1870, carried commuters and shoppers from the riverfront to the residential ridge of Mount Washington. Work was also underway upriver at Braddock on a steel plant that would become one of the region's most watched projects.
| Created / published | 1874 |
|---|---|
| Creator | krebs, otto |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1874. 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 | 8,238 × 4,960 px · prints to 27 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Pittsburgh & Allegheny |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490628 |
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