RI Pawtucket Central Falls MAP – Antique Map Print
(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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RI Pawtucket Central Falls MAP comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Pawtucket & Central Falls, R.I. 1877
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RI Pawtucket Central Falls MAP
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This view covers two neighboring Rhode Island mill towns, Pawtucket and Central Falls, which sit along the Blackstone River and the drop in its channel that powered their early industry. Panoramic maps like this one were drawn from an elevated angle so that streets, factories and houses could be shown together in a single sweeping view, and they were a popular way to record American towns in the 1870s. The firms named on the record belonged to a busy trade in such lithographs. Pawtucket is also where Samuel Slater opened his cotton-spinning mill in 1793, an event often cited as the start of the factory system in the region.
| Created / published | 1877 |
|---|---|
| Creator | c.h. vogt (firm), j. knauber & co, bailey, o. h. (oakley hoopes), hazen, j. c. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,400 × 3,413 px · prints to 15 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Pawtucket & Central Falls, R.I. 1877 |
| Reference | RI-PawtucketCentralFall |
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