Maynard, Massachusetts, 1879 – Antique Wall Map
(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 Maynard, Massachusetts, 1879. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Maynard, Mass. 1879
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Maynard, Massachusetts, 1879
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In 1879, Maynard, Massachusetts, was a young mill town on the Assabet River in Middlesex County. It had been Assabet Village until 1871, when it took the name of Amory Maynard, a manufacturer tied to the textile works that powered the local economy. The Assabet Manufacturing Company's mills were the town's chief employer, drawing workers and their families into a community built around the river's falls and the weaving rooms. Rail links to Boston and the wider region carried cloth out and brought supplies and new residents in, so the village's fortunes followed the mill's output. Residents of the period would have known Maynard first as a company town shaped by its factory, with churches, schools, and boarding houses clustered near the water.
| Created / published | 1879 |
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| Creator | bailey, o. h. (oakley hoopes), hazen, j. c. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Maynard, Massachusetts, 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--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,960 × 6,944 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Maynard, Mass. 1879 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488925 |
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