Ansonia, Connecticut, 1921 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Ansonia, Connecticut, 1921, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Ansonia, Connecticut 1921
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Ansonia, Connecticut, 1921
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Ansonia, Connecticut, in 1921 was a brass and metalworking town on the Naugatuck River, not far from where it meets the Housatonic. The city was named for the industrialist Anson Greene Phelps, and its brass, copper, and clock factories drew workers from across Europe. Irish, Italian, Polish, and Hungarian families filled the streets climbing from the river flats, and their parish churches and social clubs were as much a part of local life as the mill whistles. Ansonia had been chartered as a city in 1889 and was run by a mayor and council, and residents followed municipal affairs closely. In the years just after the First World War, demand for metal goods rose and fell, and the map records the dense blocks of factories, rail sidings, and workers' housing that made the town's economy visible.
| Created / published | 1921 |
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| Creator | hughes & bailey |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ansonia, Connecticut, drawn in 1921. 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 | 9,968 × 6,880 px · prints to 33 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Ansonia, Connecticut 1921 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488118 |
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