Dixfield, Maine, 1896 – 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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This antique map of Dixfield, Maine, 1896 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Dixfield, Maine, 1896
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Dixfield, a town in Oxford County, Maine, sat along the Androscoggin River in 1896 as a community of farms, small mills, and wooded hillsides. Like many river towns in the valley, its work depended on water power and on the timber cut from the surrounding ridges, with sawmills and grain mills providing much of the local employment. Farmers sold produce and cordwood to the larger valley markets, and rail connections to the region carried summer visitors toward the lakes and mountains farther north. Townspeople would have known Dixfield as a place where church, grange meetings, and the annual town meeting shaped civic life, and where most families still lived by the mills and the seasons.
| Created / published | 1896 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Dixfield, Maine, drawn in 1896. 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--Maine |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,984 × 5,792 px · prints to 27 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Dixfield, Maine, 1896 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489140 |
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