Dennis USGS, Massachusetts, 1943 – Vintage Map Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Dennis USGS, Massachusetts, 1943. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Dennis USGS, Massachusetts, 1943
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Dennis, on the south shore of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, was a village-centered town in 1943, when its economy still rested on cranberry bogs, shellfishing, salt-hay meadows, and small-boat fishing along Cape Cod Bay and Nantucket Sound. Summer visitors had been arriving for decades, and the Cape Playhouse, established in the village in the 1920s, drew theater audiences from well beyond the Cape. The war changed daily life: nearby military installations, coastal watches, and wartime shortages of gasoline and labor pressed on residents who were used to a quiet off-season. A bird's-eye view of the town from this period would have shown a community that people knew for its harbors, bogs, and summer theater, with the war sitting just beyond its shoreline.
| Created / published | 1943 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Massachusetts |
| Original scan | 6,600 × 10,106 px · prints to 22 × 34 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | MA-Dennis USGS 1943 |
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