Derry Station, Pennsylvania, 1900 – 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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Derry Station, Pennsylvania, 1900 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Derry Station, Pennsylvania 1900
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Derry Station, Pennsylvania, 1900
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Derry Station in 1900 was a small railroad community in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, built around the Pennsylvania Railroad line that ran east from Pittsburgh. Its fortunes were tied to the surrounding coal country, where mines supplied fuel to the furnaces of the Pittsburgh district and to the coke ovens of the Connellsville fields to the south. Passenger and freight trains carried miners, farm goods, and supplies through the depot each day, and the station was where local people made connections to Latrobe, Greensburg, and the larger city. Residents of the period would have known Derry Station mainly as their stop on the line, a town whose shops, hotels, and houses reflected a population that lived by wage work and the railroad timetable.
| 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 Derry Station, 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 | 7,104 × 4,480 px · prints to 24 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Derry Station, Pennsylvania 1900 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490525 |
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