Monson, Massachusetts, 1879 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Step back in time with Monson, Massachusetts, 1879, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Monson, Mass. 1879
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Monson, Massachusetts, 1879
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In 1879, Monson, Massachusetts, was a small hill town in Hampden County, where farming, local craft work, and the granite quarries that had been opened in the surrounding hills supplied most of the town's livelihood. Its people were tied to the wider county through roads and the rail lines that served the region, and the town's civic life centered on its churches, schools, and town meetings. Monson Academy, a private school founded in the early nineteenth century, gave the town a reputation beyond its borders as a place of learning. A map like this one captured the village as residents knew it, with its meetinghouses, mills, and houses set along the streets before later decades changed its appearance.
| Created / published | 1879 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Monson, Massachusetts, 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--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,352 × 6,464 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Monson, Mass. 1879 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488931 |
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