Ayer, Massachusetts, 1886 – 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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This antique map of Ayer, Massachusetts, 1886 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Ayer, Mass
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Ayer, Massachusetts, 1886
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Ayer, Massachusetts, in 1886 was a young town, only about fifteen years old, carved out of Groton and named for Frederick E. Ayer, a Boston businessman whose textile mills on the Nashua River gave the place its economic backbone. Its position as a railroad junction, where the Fitchburg line met the Worcester, Nashua and Portland route, drew freight yards, depots and workers' housing into a compact village beside the water. Residents of the day would have known Ayer first for its mills and its trains, with their whistles and smoke shaping daily life for families who worked the looms and kept the tracks running. The town's streets, churches and commercial blocks, which this drawing records building by building, reflect a community still settling into its identity as an industrial village.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | burleigh, l. r. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ayer, Massachusetts, drawn in 1886. 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--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,144 × 4,656 px · prints to 27 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Ayer, Mass |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488877 |
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