Tilton, New Hampshire, 1884 – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Tilton, New Hampshire, 1884, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Tilton, N.H., Belknap County, 1884
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Tilton, New Hampshire, 1884
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Tilton, New Hampshire, in 1884 was a small river village in the Merrimack Valley, where the Winnipesaukee River powered mills and the railroad made it a working junction. Its economy rested on manufacturing, and the rail lines carried goods and passengers between the valley towns and the Lakes Region, which gave the village more traffic than its size suggested. Tilton had only recently become a separate town, having been set off from Northfield in 1869, so local civic life was still taking shape around its churches, schools, and stores. Residents in the 1880s would have known the village for its mill yards, its rail yard, and the Tilton Seminary, a school that drew students from across the state.
| Created / published | 1884 |
|---|---|
| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), norris & wellge |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Tilton, New Hampshire, drawn in 1884. 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--New Hampshire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,912 × 5,200 px · prints to 23 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Tilton, N.H., Belknap County, 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489666 |
More from the Panoramic Maps collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
