Derby, Connecticut, 1898 – 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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Derby, Connecticut, 1898 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Derby, Shelton, and East Derby, Conn., 1898
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Derby, Connecticut, 1898
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Derby, Connecticut, in 1898 was a manufacturing town at the meeting of the Naugatuck and Housatonic rivers, in the lower Naugatuck Valley. Its economy rested on the brass, iron, and metalwork shops that lined the river valley, and the surrounding region was known for its factories and the workers who staffed them. Rail lines tied the town to New Haven, Waterbury, and the coast, moving raw metal inward and finished goods out. Residents of the period would have known Derby as a working river town, where mill whistles set the rhythm of the day and families lived close to the shops that employed them. The view captures the layout of streets, houses, and industrial buildings as they stood at the close of the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Creator | landis and hughes |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Derby, Connecticut, drawn in 1898. 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 | 11,543 × 8,556 px · prints to 38 × 29 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Derby, Shelton, and East Derby, Conn., 1898 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488126 |
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