Clinton, Massachusetts, 1876 – 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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This antique map of Clinton, Massachusetts, 1876 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Clinton, Mass. : 1876
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Clinton, Massachusetts, 1876
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Clinton, Massachusetts, in 1876 was a mill town on the Nashua River in Worcester County, and it had been a separate town only since 1850, when it broke away from Lancaster. Its economy rested on its factories, above all the Bigelow Carpet Company and the Lancaster Mills, which drew workers from Ireland, French Canada, and the surrounding countryside to the riverside village. A railroad line running up the valley linked the town to Worcester and beyond, carrying in raw cotton and wool and shipping out finished cloth. The centennial year found residents proud of their growth, and they would have known Clinton by the sound of its looms and the smoke rising over its mill yards.
| Created / published | 1876 |
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| Creator | j. knauber & co, o.h. bailey & co, c.h. vogt (firm) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Clinton, Massachusetts, drawn in 1876. 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 | 8,800 × 6,624 px · prints to 29 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Clinton, Mass. : 1876 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488894 |
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