Turners Falls, Massachusetts, 1877 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Turners Falls, Massachusetts, 1877. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Turners Falls, Mass. 1877
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Turners Falls, Massachusetts, 1877
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Turners Falls, a village in the town of Montague on the Connecticut River in Franklin County, Massachusetts, was a mill community in 1877. Its name recalled Captain Samuel Turner, killed at the falls in 1676 during King Philip's War. By the 1870s, the river's drop was harnessed by a power canal and a cluster of factories, and the railroad along the river tied the village to larger markets to the south and north. Paper, lumber, and other manufacturing gave work to a growing population of mill hands, many of them recent immigrants, and the village was known to its residents as a working place defined by water power and the rhythm of the shift whistle. This 1877 drawing shows the streets, mills, and houses as they stood at that time.
| Created / published | 1877 |
|---|---|
| Creator | o.h. bailey & co, c.h. vogt (firm) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Turners Falls, Massachusetts, drawn in 1877. 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 | 8,944 × 6,688 px · prints to 30 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Turners Falls, Mass. 1877 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488959 |
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