South Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1885 – 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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This antique map of South Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1885 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.
Library of Congress record: South Weymouth, Norfolk County, Mass. 1885
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South Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1885
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South Weymouth, a village within the town of Weymouth on Massachusetts's South Shore, appears in this 1885 view as a community shaped by the boot and shoe trade. Cutting rooms, stitching shops and small factories employed local families alongside farmhands and mechanics, and the work tied the village to the shoe towns of Norfolk and Plymouth counties. The Old Colony Railroad gave residents a direct line to Boston, so goods and workers moved readily between the village and the city. Weymouth had been settled in the 1620s and incorporated in 1635, and by the 1880s its people still measured their community by church congregations, schools and the daily rhythm of the depot.
| Created / published | 1885 |
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| Creator | geo. h. walker & co, jörgensen, c. e., a.f. poole & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of South Weymouth, Massachusetts, drawn in 1885. 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 | 8,384 × 6,256 px · prints to 28 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | South Weymouth, Norfolk County, Mass. 1885 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488954 |
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