Nashua, New Hampshire, 1883 – 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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Nashua, New Hampshire, 1883 comes to life in this antique map, 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.
Library of Congress record: Nashua, New Hampshire 1883
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Nashua, New Hampshire, 1883
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Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1883 was a mill city at the meeting of the Merrimack and Nashua Rivers, where waterpower from the rivers ran large cotton textile works and the workers who staffed them. Its factories, canals, and rail lines, including the Boston and Lowell line that linked it to Massachusetts markets, gave the city its character, and it had been incorporated as a city only a few decades earlier, in 1853. Residents of the period would have known the place for its mill yards and tenement blocks, its churches and schoolhouses, and the steady stream of families who came from farms across New Hampshire and from Canada to find work. A street-by-street view of the town from this moment records where that industry stood, which streets housed its workers, and how the river shaped every block.
| Created / published | 1883 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Nashua, New Hampshire, drawn in 1883. 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--New Hampshire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,108 × 7,437 px · prints to 34 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Nashua, New Hampshire 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489657 |
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