Ludlow, Vermont, 1859 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Ludlow, Vermont, 1859. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Ludlow, Vt. 1859 From south hill
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Ludlow, Vermont, 1859
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Ludlow, Vermont, in 1859 was a small farming and mill town in the Black River valley of Windsor County, its fields and pastures cut from hillsides that had been cleared over the previous half century. Water power from the Black River drove the local mills, which supplied lumber and other goods to markets reached by wagon and, once the railroad had reached the valley by the early 1850s, by rail. Like most Vermont towns of its size, Ludlow rested on families who worked their own land, and its civic life centered on churches, the town meeting, and an academy that drew students from the surrounding hill towns. The map shows a community on the eve of the Civil War, just before the national crisis would send many of its young men into Vermont regiments.
| Created / published | 1859 |
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| Creator | w. endicott & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ludlow, Vermont, drawn in 1859. 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 | 7,736 × 5,968 px · prints to 26 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Ludlow, Vt. 1859 From south hill |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491238 |
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