Winchester, New Hampshire, 1887 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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 Winchester, New Hampshire, 1887 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Winchester, N.H., Cheshire County, 1887
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Winchester, New Hampshire, 1887
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In 1887, Winchester, New Hampshire, was a small mill town in the Ashuelot River valley of Cheshire County, a few miles south of Keene. Its economy rested on water-powered mills along the river and on farming in the surrounding hills, and the rail line running through the valley linked its goods and workers to larger markets to the east and west. Like many rural New England towns of the period, Winchester was losing some of its young people to cities and to the western states, even as its mills and churches remained the center of local life. Town meetings, church congregations, and the grange halls shaped civic and social routines, and residents would have recognized the village by its mill buildings, its white church spires, and the streets climbing the surrounding slopes.
| Created / published | 1887 |
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| Creator | norris, george e., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Winchester, New Hampshire, drawn in 1887. 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 | 7,168 × 4,848 px · prints to 24 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Winchester, N.H., Cheshire County, 1887 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489670 |
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