Greenfield, Massachusetts, 1877 – 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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A window into the past: Greenfield, Massachusetts, 1877, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: View of Greenfield, Mass
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Greenfield, Massachusetts, 1877
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Greenfield, the county seat of Franklin County in western Massachusetts, sat along the Green River in 1877, a few miles east of the Connecticut River. Rail service had reached the town by the 1840s, and its depots and freight yards made it the shipping point for the farms, mills, and hill towns of the surrounding county. Small shops making tools, cutlery, and paper provided work for a population of old New England families and newer arrivals from Ireland and French Canada. Civic life revolved around the courthouse, the churches, and the stores along Main Street, which residents would have known as the commercial center of the county.
| Created / published | 1877 |
|---|---|
| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Greenfield, Massachusetts, drawn in 1877. 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 | 7,984 × 6,608 px · prints to 27 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Greenfield, Mass |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488908 |
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