Confluence, Pennsylvania, 1905 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Confluence, Pennsylvania, 1905. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Confluence, Pennsylvania 1905
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Confluence, Pennsylvania, 1905
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Confluence, a small borough in Somerset County in southwestern Pennsylvania, takes its name from the meeting of the Youghiogheny River and Laurel Hill Creek, and this 1905 bird's-eye view records it at a time when river and rail shaped daily life there. The surrounding hills and valleys supplied timber, farm produce, and coal, and the wider region was known for its mines and the coke ovens of the Connellsville district to the north. Residents would have measured their town by its mills, churches, schools, and the traffic moving along the river and the rail lines that connected them to Pittsburgh and the markets beyond. The map captures a community still organized around its waterways and small commercial streets, before the automobile and the highway reshaped travel through the region.
| Created / published | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Confluence, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1905. 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 | 6,848 × 5,264 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Confluence, Pennsylvania 1905 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490519 |
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