Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, 1902 – Antique Wall Map
(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 Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, 1902, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, 1902
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Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, in 1902 was a river town on the Monongahela about thirty miles south of Pittsburgh, and its fortunes followed the water. Coal barges and steamboats carried product up and down the river, while nearby mines and mills drew workers from the surrounding hills and from families who had arrived from Europe in the decades before. The formation of the United States Steel Corporation in 1901 had just bound the Pittsburgh-area steel works into one company, which shaped jobs and wages throughout the valley. For residents, the town meant its streets of stores and churches, its river landing, and the steady rhythm of shifts at the works.
| Created / published | 1902 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1902. 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 | 8,944 × 4,752 px · prints to 30 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, 1902 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490587 |
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