Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1902 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1902 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.
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Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1902
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Homestead, on the Monongahela River about ten miles upriver from Pittsburgh, in 1902 was a mill town built around the Homestead Steel Works of the Carnegie Steel Company. The plant had become one of the largest steel works in the country, and its furnaces and rolling mills dominated the riverfront and the streets of workers' housing that climbed the hills behind them. The town still carried the memory of the summer of 1892, when a lockout and a violent clash with Pinkerton agents at the works broke the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and left a lasting mark on labor relations in the region. By 1902 the mill was running at full strength, and most residents would have known Homestead first as the place where the steel was made.
| Created / published | 1902 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Homestead, 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 | 9,248 × 5,952 px · prints to 31 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1902 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490558 |
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