Falmouth USGS, Massachusetts, 1941 – Vintage Map Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Falmouth USGS, Massachusetts, 1941. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Falmouth USGS, Massachusetts, 1941
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In 1941 Falmouth was still a town of small harbors, cranberry bogs, and summer cottages at the southwest corner of Cape Cod. The September 1938 hurricane had battered its shoreline only three years earlier, and residents were still repairing waterfront property and boats. Woods Hole, the village at the town's southern tip, had gained the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1930, adding to the fisheries and marine laboratories already there. Fishing and cranberry growing still supported many families, while summer visitors filled boarding houses and rented cottages along the beaches each season. Within months the United States would enter the Second World War, and many of the town's young men would soon leave the harbors for military service.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Massachusetts |
| Original scan | 6,600 × 9,160 px · prints to 22 × 31 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | MA-Falmouth USGS 1941 |
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