Manchester, Connecticut, 1914 – 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: Manchester, Connecticut, 1914, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Manchester, Connecticut 1914
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Manchester, Connecticut, 1914
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Manchester, Connecticut, in 1914 was a mill town in the Connecticut River valley, just east of Hartford. Its economy rested largely on silk. The Cheney Brothers silk works in South Manchester had drawn workers for decades, and the mill village around them housed a mix of Irish, English, Swedish, Italian, and Polish families, along with Yankee families from the surrounding farms. Trolley lines carried workers and shoppers to and from Hartford, tying the town's factory life to the larger city. Residents of the period would have known Manchester first as a silk town, a place where the mill whistle set the daily routine.
| Created / published | 1914 |
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| Creator | hughes & bailey |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Manchester, Connecticut, drawn in 1914. 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 | 11,680 × 8,480 px · prints to 39 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Manchester, Connecticut 1914 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488133 |
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