New Brighton, Pennsylvania, 1901 – 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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This rare antique map captures New Brighton, Pennsylvania, 1901 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: New Brighton, Pennsylvania 1901
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New Brighton, Pennsylvania, 1901
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In 1901, New Brighton was a borough of about ten thousand people on the Beaver River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and it sat within the steel-producing district that U.S. Steel's consolidation earlier that year was reshaping. Electric trolley lines were spreading through the Beaver Valley around this time, giving residents faster routes to neighboring towns and their jobs, and the borough's streets were busy with carriages, streetcars, and foot traffic. Churches, schools, and fraternal halls anchored the community, and the local newspapers kept readers current on town council business and the county's election contests. Residents would have known New Brighton as a close-knit place where daily life moved between the workplace and the family church, and this view records its buildings just as the valley's industrial economy was pulling it toward the twentieth century.
| 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 New Brighton, 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 | 9,080 × 5,480 px · prints to 30 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | New Brighton, Pennsylvania 1901 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490598 |
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