Canton, Massachusetts, 1918 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Canton, Massachusetts, 1918 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Canton, Mass. 1918
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Canton, Massachusetts, 1918
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Canton, Massachusetts, in 1918 was a small manufacturing town in Norfolk County, south of Boston, with its economy built along the Neponset River, where mill power had long driven textile and paper works. The Boston and Providence Railroad carried workers and goods through the town, and the granite Canton Viaduct, completed in 1835, crossed the river valley as a landmark residents knew well. That year many of the town's young men were serving in the First World War, and in the autumn the influenza epidemic swept through Massachusetts communities, closing schools and halting public gatherings. Canton was still organized around its mills, churches and rail line, on the eve of the changes that would reshape New England's older manufacturing towns in the decades after the war.
| Created / published | 1918 |
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| Creator | hughes & bailey |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Canton, Massachusetts, drawn in 1918. 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 | 10,842 × 7,600 px · prints to 36 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Canton, Mass. 1918 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488892 |
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