East Walpole, Massachusetts, 1898 – 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 rare antique map captures East Walpole, Massachusetts, 1898 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: East Walpole, Norfolk County, Mass. 1898
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East Walpole, Massachusetts, 1898
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East Walpole, Massachusetts, in 1898 was a mill village on the Neponset River in Norfolk County, about 20 miles southwest of Boston. Water power from the river drove textile and paper works, and the town's workers lived in streets clustered near the factories and along the rail line. The Boston and Providence Railroad ran through Walpole, giving residents a connection to Boston jobs and markets and drawing a steady flow of commuters and freight. Civic life centered on churches, schools, and town meetings, and the village's population depended on the fortunes of its mills. The 1898 view records the village as its residents knew it at the close of the nineteenth century, before the automobile and the trolley reshaped the countryside around it.
| Created / published | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Creator | bert poole co, poole, a. f. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of East Walpole, Massachusetts, drawn in 1898. 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 | 7,088 × 4,848 px · prints to 24 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | East Walpole, Norfolk County, Mass. 1898 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488899 |
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