Torrington, Connecticut, 1907 – 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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Torrington, Connecticut, 1907 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Torrington, Connecticut 1907
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Torrington, Connecticut, 1907
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In 1907 Torrington, Connecticut, was a manufacturing town whose best-known employer, the Torrington Company, made needles for sewing and textile markets across the country. Its factories set the daily rhythm of the place, with shift changes and deliveries moving along the streets and rail lines that connected the town to larger markets. Residents knew Torrington for its industry, and also for the churches, lodges, and public buildings that anchored neighborhoods on the slopes above the mills. Like many Connecticut manufacturing towns in the early 1900s, Torrington was growing steadily, and its built-up blocks had spread well beyond the original village center.
| Created / published | 1907 |
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| Creator | hughes & bailey, bailey, o. h. (oakley hoopes) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Torrington, Connecticut, drawn in 1907. 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 | 11,392 × 9,120 px · prints to 38 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Torrington, Connecticut 1907 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488158 |
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