Springfield, Vermont, 1886 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Springfield, Vermont, 1886 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: Springfield, Vt
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Springfield, Vermont, 1886
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Springfield, Vermont, in 1886 was a manufacturing village on the Black River in Windsor County, where water power had drawn mills and shops for most of the nineteenth century. Its factories made farm machinery, cider presses, and metal goods, and the machine-tool trade that later became the town's signature was only beginning to take shape. Rail connections carried finished goods to outside markets, while churches, schools, and fraternal lodges gave residents a steady civic life. Within a few years the Jones & Lamson Machine Company would move its operations to Springfield from Windsor, bringing skilled mechanics and reshaping the village's growth.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | burleigh, l. r., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Springfield, Vermont, 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--Vermont |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,704 × 4,944 px · prints to 29 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Springfield, Vt |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491243 |
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