Ashland, New Hampshire, 1883 – 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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This antique map of Ashland, New Hampshire, 1883 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Ashland, Grafton Co., N.H. 1883
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Ashland, New Hampshire, 1883
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Ashland, New Hampshire, in 1883 was a small mill-and-railroad village in the Pemigewasset River valley of Grafton County. Water power from the river drove the mills along its banks, and the railroad linked the village to markets in Concord and Boston, which kept goods and workers moving through the valley. Like many rural New Hampshire towns of the period, Ashland was near the height of its population and commercial life, even as young people were beginning to leave for growing cities and western states. Town government was run by annual meetings of voters, and churches, schools, and the village store anchored daily life for residents who would have known the place by its streets, mills, and river crossings. The 1883 view records those streets and buildings at a moment before the valley's industries began to shift.
| Created / published | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Creator | beck & pauli, poole & norris |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ashland, New Hampshire, drawn in 1883. 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--New Hampshire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,256 × 4,736 px · prints to 14 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Ashland, Grafton Co., N.H. 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489633 |
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