Eastport, Maine, 1879 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Eastport, Maine, 1879 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Eastport, Washington Co., Maine
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Eastport, Maine, 1879
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Eastport, Maine, in 1879 was a fishing and packing port on Moose Island, at the edge of Passamaquoddy Bay, where tides rose and fell by a wide margin twice a day. Its wharves served fishing boats, coasting schooners, and lumber vessels, and its sardine canneries, which packed herring from the surrounding waters, had become the town's best-known business. Cannery workers, shipwrights, and merchants along Water Street depended on the bay trade for their livelihoods. Residents also lived close to Canada, with the island of Campobello visible across the water. This street-by-street view records the waterfront and the wooden houses climbing the hill behind it.
| Created / published | 1879 |
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| Creator | stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Eastport, Maine, drawn in 1879. 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--Maine |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,760 × 4,704 px · prints to 26 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Eastport, Washington Co., Maine |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489141 |
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