Medford, Massachusetts, 1880 – 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 antique map of Medford, Massachusetts, 1880 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Medford, Massachusetts : 1880
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Medford, Massachusetts, 1880
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Medford, Massachusetts, in 1880 was a river town on the Mystic, just north of Boston, whose economy rested on brickmaking and on the shipyards that had once made it famous. Clay from the riverbanks fed brick kilns, and Medford-built clipper ships had carried its name across the world's oceans, though the shift from wooden hulls to iron and steam was already drawing that trade away. Commuters rode the railroad into Boston each morning, and the town was filling with modest houses and church spires as it grew into a residential suburb. Tufts College, a small school founded by Universalists on Walnut Hill at the town's edge, added students and visitors to local life.
| Created / published | 1880 |
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| Creator | brainard, charles h. (charles henry), o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Medford, Massachusetts, drawn in 1880. 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 | 7,904 × 6,080 px · prints to 26 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Medford, Massachusetts : 1880 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488926 |
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