Bristol, Connecticut, 1889 – 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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Step back in time with Bristol, Connecticut, 1889, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bristol, Conn. looking north-east
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Bristol, Connecticut, 1889
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Bristol, Connecticut, in 1889 was a manufacturing town in the Naugatuck Valley, and its economy rested largely on clockmaking and brass. Firms such as the Ingraham and Sessions clock companies turned out timepieces for national markets, and brass and metal works along the Pequabuck River gave steady employment to mill hands. Railroad lines linked the town to New Haven and Hartford, which helped move finished goods out and brought workers and raw materials in. Civic life centered on churches, fraternal lodges, and the mill-town neighborhoods that grew up around the factories. Residents of the period would have known Bristol first as a clock town, a reputation that shaped its streets, its work rhythms, and its sense of itself.
| Created / published | 1889 |
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| Creator | norris, george e., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bristol, Connecticut, 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--Connecticut |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,680 × 5,808 px · prints to 32 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bristol, Conn. looking north-east |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488121 |
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