1902Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

T. M. Fowler, delineated; James B. Moyer, published.

Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph

What this plate shows

Pittsburgh at the confluence, drawn by Fowler in 1902: the Point, the two rivers, bridges, mills, hills of houses. A bird’s-eye lithograph, indexed, not to scale, and not a photograph. Two years past 1900. The date stays 1902. It is not filed as an 1890s sheet.

Image type: Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
Source: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, panoramic maps, item 75696521. Direct scale of that raster. Not a redraw.
License: Public domain.

Collections where this plate appears

01U.S. bird’s-eye viewsGiant lithographs from an imagined high point. Not photographs. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Denver — as print shops sold them. Later sheets stay later. Added beside those, not in place of them: Annapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Louisville, Seattle, Leadville, Pittsburgh.