Clinton, Connecticut, 1881 – 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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This antique map of Clinton, Connecticut, 1881 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: View of Clinton, Connecticut 1881
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Clinton, Connecticut, 1881
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Clinton, Connecticut, in 1881 was a small shoreline town in Middlesex County, looking out over Long Island Sound between New Haven and the Connecticut River towns. Its economy rested on a mix of farming, coastal fishing and oystering, and trades that served the harbor and the surrounding countryside. The main line of the New Haven and Shore Line railroad ran along the coast, linking the village to larger markets and bringing in summer visitors who came for the sea air. Residents in that decade would have known Clinton as a quiet harbor village, where church, school and town meeting shaped daily civic life and the water set the rhythm of work.
| Created / published | 1881 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Clinton, Connecticut, drawn in 1881. 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--Connecticut |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,968 × 6,288 px · prints to 27 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Clinton, Connecticut 1881 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488124 |
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