Lynn, Massachusetts, 1820 – 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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Lynn, Massachusetts, 1820 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Market Street, Lynn, Mass., as it appeared in 1820
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Lynn, Massachusetts, 1820
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Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1820 was a farming and fishing town on the North Shore, about ten miles north of Boston, and its economy was already tied to shoemaking. Much of the work took place in small shops and dwellings, where journeymen cut, stitched, and bound uppers for merchants who sent leather in and collected finished shoes for sale in Boston and beyond. Shoemakers' shops often stood beside family houses, so the town's streets were lined with small workshops as well as homes and churches. Residents of the period knew Lynn for this trade, which drew a growing population to the town's center and kept many households dependent on the seasonal rhythms of the shoe business. The changes that would later bring factories and a larger workforce were still ahead.
| Created / published | 1820 |
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| Creator | oliver, wm. t. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Lynn, Massachusetts, drawn in 1820. 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 | 5,184 × 2,256 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Market Street, Lynn, Mass., as it appeared in 1820 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488922 |
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