Huntingdon, Massachusetts, 1886 – 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 Huntingdon, Massachusetts, 1886 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Huntingdon, Massachusetts, 1886
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In 1886, Huntingdon was a small hill town in western Massachusetts, where most families still earned their living from farming, dairying, and wood-lot work. Its streets were lined with frame houses, barns, and churches, and the land along its rivers and brooks supported a few small mills. Like many rural Massachusetts towns of the period, Huntingdon was slowly losing residents to the factory cities of the Connecticut Valley and to the western states, and its town meetings, school committees, and church congregations remained the center of public life. Local people in 1886 would have known the town first by its farms, its village center, and the roads that linked it to the nearest railroad stops.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Huntingdon, Massachusetts, drawn in 1886. 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 |
| Original scan | 6,608 × 4,544 px · prints to 22 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488920 |
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