Seymour, Connecticut, 1879 – 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 Seymour, Connecticut, 1879. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: View of Seymour, Conn. 1879
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Seymour, Connecticut, 1879
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Seymour, Connecticut, sits along the Naugatuck River in the Naugatuck Valley, and this 1879 bird's-eye view shows a town whose fortunes rested on its mills. Known as Humphreysville until it took the name Seymour in 1850, the village grew around water-powered factories, and by the late 1870s rubber manufacturing was among its most important industries. The Naugatuck Railroad, which linked the valley to New Haven, carried goods and workers between the mills and larger markets. Residents of the 1870s would have recognized the town as a manufacturing village where factory whistles set the daily routine and the river's power drove the local economy.
| Created / published | 1879 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Seymour, Connecticut, drawn in 1879. 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 | 7,712 × 6,144 px · prints to 26 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Seymour, Conn. 1879 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488150 |
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