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[View of Lowell, Massachusetts] – Vintage Wall Art

[View of Lowell, Massachusetts], [ca. 1850(?)] — antique engraving
[View of Lowell, Massachusetts], [ca. 1850(?)]. Antique engraving from the Boston collection.

(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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[View of Lowell, Massachusetts] comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Lowell, Massachusetts, was among the first large planned industrial cities in the United States, built along the Merrimack River in the 1820s around water-powered textile mills. A color engraving of the city from about 1850 shows it at the height of that growth, when its brick mills, canals, and boarding houses drew workers from across New England. The date is given as uncertain in the record, so the view may reflect the city a few years earlier or later. Prints like this one were popular for showing civic pride and the scale of manufacturing, and they are useful today for seeing how the mill town was laid out.

Created / published[ca. 1850(?)]
Medium1 print : engraving, color.
GenreCityscape prints 1850.Engravings Color 1850.
SubjectsLowell (Mass.)--1850.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,432 × 1,137 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217258

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