Southbridge, Massachusetts, 1892 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Southbridge, Massachusetts, 1892 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Southbridge, Massachusetts
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Southbridge, Massachusetts, 1892
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Southbridge, Massachusetts, in Worcester County, was a manufacturing town in 1892, and the American Optical Company, which made spectacles and eyeglasses, was the largest employer and gave the town much of its identity. Its factory buildings, workers' housing, and the stores and churches around them are the subjects of this view, which shows a community whose economy depended on a few large plants. Residents of the period would have known the town as a place where skilled hands and mill work defined daily life, and where civic affairs were shaped by the companies that paid the wages. The decade was one of steady industrial growth across central Massachusetts, and this map records a town at the moment its factories and neighborhoods were expanding together.
| Created / published | 1892 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Southbridge, Massachusetts, drawn in 1892. 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 | 9,550 × 6,831 px · prints to 32 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Southbridge, Massachusetts |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488955 |
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