Lynn, Massachusetts, 1881 – 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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Step back in time with Lynn, Massachusetts, 1881, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Home of the Hutchinson Family, High Rock, Lynn, Mass., U.S.A.
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Lynn, Massachusetts, 1881
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Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1881 was a manufacturing city whose shoe trade had moved well beyond the home workshops of earlier decades. Machines for sewing and lasting, several of them improved in the town's own shops, let manufacturers gather workers under one roof and produce shoes in volume for markets across the country. The Eastern Railroad's line to Boston carried finished goods and commuting workers along the North Shore, tying the city to larger commerce. Lynn's population had grown quickly, drawing Irish immigrants to the factory districts, and residents argued over wages, hours, and the pace of the city's expansion in the council chamber and the local press. Those who lived there knew Lynn as the shoe city of New England.
| Created / published | 1881 |
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| Creator | armstrong & co. (boston, mass,) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Lynn, Massachusetts, drawn in 1881. 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 | 6,283 × 4,204 px · prints to 21 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Home of the Hutchinson Family, High Rock, Lynn, Mass., U.S.A. |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488923 |
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