Wilmantic, Connecticut, 1882 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Wilmantic, Connecticut, 1882 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Willimantic, Conn., 1882 From Blake Mountain
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Wilmantic, Connecticut, 1882
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Willimantic, a mill village in the town of Windham in eastern Connecticut, was a center of thread manufacturing in 1882. Its factories sat along the Willimantic River, where waterpower drove spinning and winding rooms, and the company that bore the town's name was among the best-known thread makers in the country. Mill housing, boardinghouses, and churches crowded the streets around the works, and many of the people who worked the looms and spools had come from Ireland, English mill towns, and French Canada. The railroad that ran through the village carried finished thread to markets in New York and Boston, tying the mill economy to larger cities and shaping how residents understood their town's place in the wider world.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Creator | porter, wils |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Wilmantic, Connecticut, drawn in 1882. 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 | 10,256 × 7,328 px · prints to 34 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Willimantic, Conn., 1882 From Blake Mountain |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488165 |
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