Norton, Massachusetts, 1891 – 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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Norton, Massachusetts, 1891 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Norton, Massachusetts 1891
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Norton, Massachusetts, 1891
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Norton, Massachusetts, in 1891 was a small town in Bristol County, in the southeastern part of the state, where farming and village trades gave way gradually to factory work. Its best-known institution was Wheaton Female Seminary, a school for women that had drawn students to the town for more than half a century and gave it a reputation beyond its borders. Like many towns in the region, Norton sat within easy reach of Taunton, Attleboro, and Brockton, where shoe manufacturing and metalworking were expanding and drawing workers from surrounding farms and villages. The map's close view of the streets, houses, and school grounds shows a community whose residents would have known it mainly as a quiet market-and-church town tied by rail and road to those busier industrial centers.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Norton, Massachusetts, drawn in 1891. 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 | 7,968 × 6,048 px · prints to 27 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Norton, Massachusetts 1891 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488944 |
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