Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1891 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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This antique map of Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1891 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Amesbury, Mass
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Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1891
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Amesbury, Massachusetts, in 1891 was a small manufacturing town on the Merrimack River in Essex County, where carriage building and hat making formed the core of its economy. Its shops and factories, many of them clustered near the river and the rail lines, sent vehicles and felt hats to buyers well beyond New England, and the workforce included many immigrant families who had come to the Merrimack mills and shops for steady work. The poet John Greenleaf Whittier had lived in the town for decades and was still living there that year, and residents took pride in his association with the place. Civic life revolved around its churches, schools, and public buildings, while the railroad linked Amesbury to Newburyport and Boston and kept goods and commuters moving through the valley.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | norris, george e., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Amesbury, 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 | 10,048 × 6,016 px · prints to 33 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Amesbury, Mass |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488872 |
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