Somerset, 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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A window into the past: Somerset, Pennsylvania, 1900, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Somerset, Pennsylvania 1900
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Somerset, Pennsylvania, 1900
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Somerset, Pennsylvania, in 1900 was the county seat of Somerset County, a farming and mining district on the Allegheny Plateau in the state's southwest. The town sat along the old National Road, the federal highway that had carried wagon traffic west since the 1810s, and by the turn of the century coal mining and railroad work were the region's main sources of wages. Residents knew it as a courthouse town, where farmers came to trade, lawyers and county officials kept offices, and churches and fraternal lodges organized social life. The map records each street and building as it stood that year, showing a compact community whose growth depended on the coal seams and rail lines running through the surrounding hills.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Somerset, 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 | 7,464 × 5,864 px · prints to 25 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Somerset, Pennsylvania 1900 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490651 |
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