Barre, Vermont, 1891 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Barre, Vermont, 1891, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Barre, Vt. (the Granite City) 1891
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Barre, Vermont, 1891
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Barre, Vermont, in 1891 was becoming the center of the American granite trade. Quarries on the hills around the village had been opened in the 1880s, and the cutting sheds along the valley were filled with stonecutters, many of them recent immigrants from Italy and Scotland, who shaped granite for monuments and public buildings shipped across the country. The village still depended on the railroad link to Montpelier, the state capital a few miles away, to move finished stone and bring in workers and supplies. Residents spoke of the place as the granite center of the country, and the crowded quarry works and boarding houses were the clearest signs of its growth. Barre would not receive its city charter until 1895.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | norris, george e. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Barre, Vermont, drawn in 1891. 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--Vermont |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,856 × 6,096 px · prints to 33 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Barre, Vt. (the Granite City) 1891 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491228 |
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