Evans City, Pennsylvania, 1900 – 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 Evans City, Pennsylvania, 1900, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Evans City, Pennsylvania 1900
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Evans City, Pennsylvania, 1900
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Evans City, a borough in Butler County about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, was a small community in 1900 whose economy rested on the farms around it and on the coal, oil, and gas wealth that was reshaping western Pennsylvania at the time. Pittsburgh's steel and glass mills drew workers and capital from the surrounding countryside, and the region's rail lines carried coal and farm goods out of the county. Residents of a town this size would have known it for its churches, its schools, its main street of brick and frame storefronts, and its close ties to nearby farming families. This 1900 view captures the town at the turn of the century, just before the automobile and electric trolleys began to change how people in Butler County traveled and shopped.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Evans City, 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 | 7,072 × 4,488 px · prints to 24 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Evans City, Pennsylvania 1900 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490539 |
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