Carnegie, Pennsylvania, 1897 – 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 rare antique map captures Carnegie, Pennsylvania, 1897 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Carnegie, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1897
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Carnegie, Pennsylvania, 1897
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Carnegie, Pennsylvania, in 1897 was a small industrial borough in Allegheny County, a short distance west of Pittsburgh, and its fortunes followed the iron and steel trade that dominated the region. The town had taken the Carnegie name in 1886, honoring Andrew Carnegie, whose steel companies were then expanding their works along the rivers and rail lines of the Pittsburgh district. Residents worked in mills, mines, and the shops that served them, and many households depended on wages that rose and fell with the furnaces. A street-by-street view of the borough from that year records the homes, churches, and business blocks of a community still shaped by the mills just beyond its edges.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1897. 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 | 9,296 × 5,536 px · prints to 31 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Carnegie, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1897 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490511 |
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