[PRCo] Re: 1895 industrial map of Pittsburgh

Derrick Brashear shadow at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 11:16:07 EST 2012


The western PA industrial map of 1884 and the previous edition of this
map both also by Alex Y Lee are also worth a look.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Yes, fascinating.
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> From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 7:43:14 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 1895 industrial map of Pittsburgh
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> Fascinating.  Thank you, Derrick
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>> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:17:54 -0500
>> Subject: [PRCo] 1895 industrial map of Pittsburgh
>> From: shadow at gmail.com
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
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>> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=darlmaps;rgn1=darlmaps_su;med=1;q1=Allegheny%20County%20%20Pa.;back=back1329790468;size=20;subview=detail;resnum=41;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=darlmaps;entryid=x-darmap0465;viewid=DARMAP0465.TIF
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>> a.k.a.
>> http://tinyurl.com/88wvya2
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>> Of note, it claims to delineate territories which are served by
>> different street railway companies. It shows the lines, but it claims
>> to also separate the territories themselves.
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>> How'd I get here? This seems to show the Squirrel Hill Electric
>> Railway right of way that would have gone through the park, modulo E V
>> Bigelow tossing them out (the blue line that
>> parallels Joncaire)
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>> Derrick
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Derrick




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