Plainville, Connecticut, 1907 – 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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This antique map of Plainville, Connecticut, 1907 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Plainville, Connecticut 1907
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Plainville, Connecticut, 1907
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In 1907, Plainville, Connecticut, was a town of about two decades' standing, a factory village in the Farmington Valley's eastern edge between Hartford and New Britain. Its industrial base had grown with the metalworking and electrical shops that drew workers from farms and from the nearby Polish and Irish neighborhoods of the larger cities. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad line carried freight and passengers through the town, and in the same year the trolley lines around Hartford were being consolidated under one company, which gave residents easier access to jobs in the capital. That autumn's financial panic on Wall Street reached small Connecticut manufacturers through slow orders and tight credit, a reminder that Plainville's fortunes followed national markets as closely as its own mill schedules.
| Created / published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hughes & bailey, bailey, o. h. (oakley hoopes) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Plainville, Connecticut, drawn in 1907. 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 | 9,040 × 6,272 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Plainville, Connecticut 1907 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488147 |
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