Waterbury, Connecticut, 1899 – 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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Waterbury, Connecticut, 1899 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: Waterbury, Conn. 1899
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Waterbury, Connecticut, 1899
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Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1899 was a brass and metalworking city that had earned the nickname the Brass City. Factories making brass, buttons, clocks and hardware lined the Naugatuck River valley, and companies such as Scovill Manufacturing and the Waterbury Clock Company drew workers from Ireland, Italy and Eastern Europe to their mills. The population had grown quickly over the preceding decades and stood at roughly 45,000 by the turn of the century. Rail lines, including the New York, New Haven and Hartford, carried its products to markets across the Northeast, and its churches and civic buildings anchored a community organized around the factory whistle. Residents of the day would have known Waterbury chiefly as a place where goods made of metal were turned out in enormous quantities.
| Created / published | 1899 |
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| Creator | landis and hughes |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Waterbury, Connecticut, drawn in 1899. 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--Connecticut |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 14,208 × 10,880 px · prints to 47 × 36 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Waterbury, Conn. 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488161 |
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