Palmer, Massachusetts, 1879 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Palmer, Massachusetts, 1879. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Palmer, Massachusetts, 1879
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Palmer, Massachusetts, in 1879 was a mill and railroad town in the Western Massachusetts hills, where the Chicopee River takes shape from the Ware and Quaboag rivers. Its water power drove textile and paper works, and its position at a rail junction made it a stop for freight and passengers moving between Boston, Albany, and the Connecticut Valley. Mill villages such as Thorndike sent cloth and goods out by train, and the mill workforce, many of them immigrants from Ireland, French Canada, and elsewhere in Europe, shaped the streets and churches. Residents of the period knew Palmer as a busy railroad and manufacturing center, one whose fortunes rose and fell with the mills and the rail lines that served them.
| Created / published | 1879 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Palmer, Massachusetts, drawn in 1879. 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 | 7,727 × 6,160 px · prints to 26 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488946 |
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