Laconia, New Hampshire, 1883 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Laconia, New Hampshire, 1883. 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 Laconia, Belknap County, N.H. 1883
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Laconia, New Hampshire, 1883
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Laconia, New Hampshire, in 1883 was a mill and railroad village on the Winnipesaukee River, a short distance from the lake of the same name that drew summer visitors from Boston and beyond. The village had grown up around water power and the railroad, which reached the area in the late 1840s. By the 1880s, shoemaking was the town's main industry, and workshops and factories along the river and near the depot employed many of its residents. Villagers would have known Laconia as a busy manufacturing center, with churches, schools, and new houses climbing the surrounding hillsides. It did not become a city until 1893.
| Created / published | 1883 |
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| Creator | beck & pauli, poole & norris |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Laconia, New Hampshire, drawn in 1883. 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--New Hampshire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,976 × 5,264 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Laconia, Belknap County, N.H. 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489650 |
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