Hopedale, Massachusetts, 1899 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Hopedale, Massachusetts, 1899, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Hopedale, Mass. 1899
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Hopedale, Massachusetts, 1899
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Hopedale, Massachusetts, in 1899 was still shaped by two forces: the Christian communitarian experiment that Adin Ballou began there in 1841, and the textile machinery works that had grown up along the Mill River. By then the Draper family's company, which built power looms, was the village's main employer, and many of the houses, churches and schools on this sheet stood on land tied to that firm. The village had only recently become its own town, having separated from Milford in 1886, so its civic life was still finding its footing. Residents would have known Hopedale as a place where a mill whistle set the day, and where a famous loom works and a older reform community sat side by side in one quiet valley.
| Created / published | 1899 |
|---|---|
| Creator | bert poole co, poole, a. f. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Hopedale, Massachusetts, drawn in 1899. 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 | 7,856 × 4,976 px · prints to 26 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Hopedale, Mass. 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488917 |
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