Brownsville, Pennsylvania, 1883 – 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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Step back in time with Brownsville, Pennsylvania, 1883, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye-view Brownsville, Bridgeport, W. Brownsville, Pa. 1883
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Brownsville, Pennsylvania, 1883
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Brownsville, Pennsylvania, sat on the east bank of the Monongahela River in Fayette County, south of Pittsburgh, and in 1883 it was still shaped by the river and the old National Road that crossed it. Its earlier fame rested on boatbuilding and river commerce, when flatboats and keelboats carried farm produce and goods downriver. By the 1880s the wider county was changing fast, as coal mining and the coke ovens around Connellsville drew workers, capital, and railroad traffic into the hills above the valley. Brownsville's residents would have measured their town against that growth, watching barges of coal and coke move past the wharves while the older commercial streets along the river kept their place. The decade also brought the ordinary civic work of a river county seat-area town, with churches, schools, and merchants expanding along the main streets.
| Created / published | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Creator | stoner, j. j., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1883. 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 | 8,080 × 4,296 px · prints to 27 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye-view Brownsville, Bridgeport, W. Brownsville, Pa. 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490504 |
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