Uxbridge, Massachusetts, 1880 – 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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A window into the past: Uxbridge, Massachusetts, 1880, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Uxbridge, Mass. 1880
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Uxbridge, Massachusetts, 1880
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Uxbridge, Massachusetts, in 1880 was a mill town in the Blackstone Valley of Worcester County, where water power from the Blackstone and Mumford rivers ran cotton and woolen works that employed much of the population. The Providence and Worcester Railroad gave the town a rail link to markets in Providence and Worcester, and it helped the factories ship goods out and bring coal and raw materials in. Around the village center, churches, schools, stores and the town common served as the civic and social hub for farming families in the surrounding hills and for the mill workers who lived in the streets near the river. Residents of the period would have known the town first for its mills and its quiet common, and the detailed street-by-street view of that year records how the two sat side by side.
| Created / published | 1880 |
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| Creator | beck & pauli, bigelow, e. h. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, drawn in 1880. 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--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,960 × 7,136 px · prints to 30 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Uxbridge, Mass. 1880 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488960 |
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