Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 1900 – 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 antique map of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 1900 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Latrobe, Pennsylvania 1900
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Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 1900
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In 1900 Latrobe was a small borough in Westmoreland County, western Pennsylvania, set along the Loyalhanna Creek about thirty miles east of Pittsburgh. Its economy rested on the surrounding coal and coke region, on the Pennsylvania Railroad line that ran through the town, and on local manufacturing that served the mining communities nearby. Saint Vincent College, a Benedictine school founded in 1846 just outside town, gave Latrobe an educational and religious presence that set it apart from the mill towns along the Monongahela. The borough was also known to its neighbors for its brewery, whose beer was sold under the Rolling Rock name. A map drawn that year captures a place still organized around its rail depot, its churches, and its creek, before the automobile and the steel boom of the next century reshaped the valley.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1900. 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 | 9,744 × 6,144 px · prints to 32 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Latrobe, Pennsylvania 1900 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490568 |
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