View of Pittsburgh & Allegheny – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of View of Pittsburgh & Allegheny. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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View of Pittsburgh & Allegheny
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Otto Krebs's 1874 panorama of Pittsburgh and Allegheny gives a bird's-eye view of the two cities at the point where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio. Krebs was among the most prolific American panoramic map makers of the period, and his perspective views were drawn to show every street, wharf, and church from a high vantage point. Because the mapmakers of the 1870s sketched from elevated viewpoints, the view captures a city then grown rich on iron, steel, glass, and river commerce. Pittsburgh and Allegheny City were separate municipalities until 1907, so the picture records two distinct towns side by side.
| Created / published | 1874 |
|---|---|
| Creator | krebs, otto |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,943 × 2,976 px · prints to 16 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Pittsburgh & Allegheny |
| Reference | PA-Pittsburgh-1874 |
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