Portland, Maine, 1876 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Portland, Maine, 1876. 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 the city of Portland, Maine 1876
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Portland, Maine, 1876
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Portland, Maine, in 1876 was a busy Atlantic seaport whose waterfront handled lumber, fish, and coastal and foreign shipping, and whose railroads carried goods inland. The Grand Trunk Railway linked the city with Montreal, so Portland served as a winter port for Canadian trade as well as a home for shipyards, foundries, and sugar works along the harbor. The Great Fire of July 4, 1866, had destroyed much of the downtown business district, and by the mid-1870s merchants and builders were still raising brick and granite commercial blocks on the old streets. Residents of the city, which had roughly 33,000 people, knew it as the birthplace of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and as the largest city in Maine. The centennial year gave local civic groups and newspapers reason to take stock of how far the city had come.
| Created / published | 1876 |
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| Creator | charles shober & co, chicago lithographing co, stoner, j. j., warner, jos |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Portland, Maine, drawn in 1876. 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--Maine |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,325 × 6,948 px · prints to 34 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Portland, Maine 1876 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489153 |
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