Bristol, Connecticut, 1907 – 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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This antique map of Bristol, Connecticut, 1907 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Bristol, Conn. 1907
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Bristol, Connecticut, 1907
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In 1907 Bristol, Connecticut, was still a town whose livelihood came from metal and machinery, with clockmaking and brass working as its older foundations. Factories clustered along the Pequabuck River and the rail corridors, and the mill neighborhoods around them housed the workers who ran the presses, lathes, and bench work. By the early 1900s firms such as New Departure, which made bicycle bells and coaster brakes, were turning out small precision parts for a fast-changing market, while the bicycle craze of the 1890s was giving way to the automobile. Residents would have measured their town by its whistles and shift changes, and by the churches, lodges, and civic societies that gave mill-town life its shape. The street-by-street detail on this map shows how tightly those factories, homes, and church spires were packed together.
| Created / published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hughes & bailey |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bristol, Connecticut, drawn in 1907. 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 | 10,752 × 9,568 px · prints to 36 × 32 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Bristol, Conn. 1907 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488122 |
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