Middletown, Connecticut, 1877 – Antique Map Print
(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 Middletown, Connecticut, 1877, 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: Middletown, Conn. 1877
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Middletown, Connecticut, 1877
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Middletown, Connecticut, in 1877 was a river city of brick and wood on the west bank of the Connecticut River, with its commerce tied to the water and to the rail line that followed the valley. Manufacturing gave the town much of its working life, and the mills and shops along the river and its side streets employed many of the families who lived in the older blocks near Main Street. Wesleyan University, founded in 1831 on the city's high ground, gave the town a second identity as a college community, and its students and professors shaped the churches, lecture halls, and local society. Middletown also served as a county seat, so courthouse business and town politics drew farmers and merchants in from the surrounding countryside. A map drawn that year records how the town looked to residents who knew its streets by name.
| Created / published | 1877 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Middletown, Connecticut, drawn in 1877. 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 | 9,527 × 7,840 px · prints to 32 × 26 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Middletown, Conn. 1877 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488135 |
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