Ashland, Massachusetts, 1878 – 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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Ashland, Massachusetts, 1878 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: View of Ashland, Mass. 1878
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Ashland, Massachusetts, 1878
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Ashland, Massachusetts, a small manufacturing town in Middlesex County, was about three decades past its 1846 incorporation when this 1878 view was drawn. Like many towns in eastern Massachusetts, its economy rested on shoe and boot shops, along with mills that drew on the local streams. Its residents were tied to nearby Framingham and Boston by rail and by road, and goods and workers moved along those routes. The map's street-by-street detail records the village's churches, schools, shops, and houses at a time when the Civil War generation was giving way to a new industrial workforce. For people living there, the town was known as a quiet place of work and neighborhood life rather than a city.
| Created / published | 1878 |
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| Creator | bailey, o. h. (oakley hoopes), hazen, j. c. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ashland, Massachusetts, drawn in 1878. 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 | 7,680 × 6,272 px · prints to 26 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Ashland, Mass. 1878 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488875 |
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