Hinsdale, Massachusetts, 1880 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 Hinsdale, Massachusetts, 1880 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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Hinsdale, Massachusetts, 1880
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Hinsdale, a hill town in Berkshire County in western Massachusetts, appears in this 1880 view at the height of the Gilded Age. Like many Berkshire communities, its economy rested on a mix of small farms and mill work along the streams, where water power drove textile and paper operations. The county's larger manufacturing centers, such as Pittsfield, drew workers and capital, and rail connections made it easier for local goods and people to move in and out of the valleys. Townspeople in 1880 would have known Hinsdale for its churches, schools, and village center, and for the working landscape that sustained its households.
| Created / published | 1880 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Hinsdale, Massachusetts, drawn in 1880. 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 |
| Original scan | 7,776 × 4,592 px · prints to 26 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488914 |
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