Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, 1901 – 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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Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, 1901 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Sharpsville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania 1901
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Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, 1901
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Sharpsville, a borough in Mercer County in western Pennsylvania, sat along the Shenango River in 1901 and was tied closely to the neighboring industrial city of Sharon. Its economy rested on iron and steel work, and the tin plate mills that spread through the Shenango Valley in the 1890s gave many local families steady wages. The year 1901 was a time of consolidation in the steel trade, when large combines were buying up independent mills, so residents would have followed those changes closely as they affected jobs and wages at home. Life in the borough centered on churches, schools, fraternal lodges, and the rail lines that carried mill products out of the valley. The detailed street-by-street view of the town that survives from this year shows a community still growing around its factories.
| Created / published | 1901 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1901. 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 | 7,592 × 4,360 px · prints to 25 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Sharpsville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania 1901 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490647 |
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