Oakdale, Massachusetts, 1891 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Oakdale, Massachusetts, 1891, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Oakdale, Massachusetts
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Oakdale, Massachusetts, 1891
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Oakdale, in the town of West Boylston in Worcester County, Massachusetts, was a mill village in 1891, its economy built on water power drawn from the streams that run down from the Wachusett hills. Like many factory villages in central Massachusetts, its daily life revolved around the mill whistle, the boarding houses and tenements near the works, and the churches and schools that served families who had come from farms in the region and from abroad to find steady wages. The larger city of Worcester, a short distance to the southeast, was the regional center for machinery, wire, and metalwork, and it drew much of the trade and labor that moved through villages like this one. Residents of 1891 would have known Oakdale as a working place, a community defined by its mills, its roads, and the seasonal rhythms of production rather than by any single landmark.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Oakdale, Massachusetts, drawn in 1891. 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 | 7,760 × 6,148 px · prints to 26 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Oakdale, Massachusetts |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488945 |
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