Mittineague, Massachusetts, 1889 – 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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A window into the past: Mittineague, Massachusetts, 1889, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Mittineague, Mass
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Mittineague, Massachusetts, 1889
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Mittineague, a village in the western part of Ludlow in Hampden County, Massachusetts, was a small mill community in 1889, set along the Chicopee River in the Connecticut Valley near Springfield and Westfield. Its economy rested on manufacturing, and paper making was a major local industry in the valley during these decades, with mill workers' households clustered near the water and the rail lines that carried raw materials and finished goods out. Like many villages of its size, Mittineague depended on churches, schools, and small stores for its social life, and residents would have measured their town against the larger cities a short distance away. L. R. Burleigh's 1889 lithograph records each street, mill, and house from above, giving a detailed view of a place whose buildings and daily routines were rarely documented in such close detail.
| Created / published | 1889 |
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| Creator | burleigh litho, burleigh, l. r. (lucien r.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Mittineague, Massachusetts, drawn in 1889. 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 | 8,494 × 5,432 px · prints to 28 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Mittineague, Mass |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488930 |
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