Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, 1900 – Antique Map Print
(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 Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, 1900, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania
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Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, 1900
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Mount Pleasant, a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, sat in the heart of the coke region in 1900, where bituminous coal was baked in rows of beehive ovens to make the fuel that Pittsburgh-area iron and steel mills depended on. Coal and coke work drew miners, ovenmen, and laborers to the surrounding hills, and the town's streets, churches, and commercial blocks served a population whose fortunes rose and fell with the price of coke and the pace of steel orders. Rail lines carried coal and coke out of the valleys and brought in supplies, tying small towns like this one to the industrial markets farther west. Local life in these years centered on churches, lodges, and borough government, and many residents also belonged to mining unions that had become a strong presence across the region in the 1890s.
| Created / published | 1900 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Mount Pleasant, 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 | 10,192 × 5,856 px · prints to 34 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490594 |
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