North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1844 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1844. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: East view of the village of North Bridgewater, Mass. 1844
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North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1844
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North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1844 was a farming and shoemaking town in Plymouth County, about 20 miles south of Boston, that had separated from Bridgewater in 1821. Its economy rested on boot and shoe production, which was still organized largely as home and small-shop work, with leather cut in central shops and stitched by workers in their own houses and outbuildings. Those workers, and the merchants who collected their finished goods for sale in Boston and beyond, shaped daily life, from the shop-floor rhythms of farm families who worked in winter to the churches and schools that served a growing population. The town would later take the name Brockton in 1874, and the shoe trade that was taking shape in these years would make it one of the largest shoe centers in the country.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Creator | beck & pauli, poole, a. f., stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, drawn in 1844. 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 | 5,504 × 3,840 px · prints to 18 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | East view of the village of North Bridgewater, Mass. 1844 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488941 |
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