Bristol, New Hampshire, 1884 – 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 Bristol, New Hampshire, 1884, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bristol, Grafton County, N.H. 1884
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Bristol, New Hampshire, 1884
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Bristol, New Hampshire, in 1884 was a mill village in Grafton County, where the Newfound River and the Pemigewasset valley provided waterpower for the factories that gave the town its working life. Like many small New England manufacturing centers, it depended on a handful of mills and the rail connections that carried their goods to Boston and other markets. Civic life centered on the village churches, schools, and the stores along its main streets, and farms in the surrounding hills supplied much of the food and labor. The town's residents knew the place as a quiet industrial community tied to the valley's rivers, and a drawing like this one shows the streets, buildings, and mill sites as they stood at that moment.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | norris, george e., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bristol, New Hampshire, drawn in 1884. 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 | 8,080 × 5,952 px · prints to 27 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bristol, Grafton County, N.H. 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489635 |
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